The History of Bread, by John Ashton, Part 6 - Conclusion
Boring Books for Bedtime Readings to Help You Sleep
Sharon Handy
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🗓️ 25 August 2025
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Let relaxation rise with this conclusion to one of our most (understandably) popular books. This time in we learn of gingerbread, penny loaf scrambles, riots, and bread-related superstitions like sin-eating and . . . floating corpse compasses? Oh, delicious bread, is there anything you can’t do?
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening, and thank you for joining me for another Boring Books for Bedtime. |
| 0:09.0 | I hope tonight's selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down |
| 0:16.5 | and let you get some sleep. Before we begin, I'd like to give a special shout out of thanks to a new member of our Patreon family, |
| 0:28.0 | Joni. |
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| 0:42.1 | everyone, and it's very much appreciated. And because you joined in the month of August, you and |
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| 1:25.3 | I hope you'll take a moment to check them out. Now, let's read and relax. |
| 1:34.7 | Find a comfortable spot. Adjust your volume. |
| 1:42.9 | Take a nice deep breath in. |
| 1:48.7 | Let it out slowly. |
| 1:53.7 | And off we go. |
| 1:57.8 | Tonight, let's relax with the conclusion of a very popular book on this podcast. |
| 2:05.7 | We're reading The History of Bread, from prehistoric to Modern Times, by John Ashton, |
| 2:15.3 | first published in 1904 by the Religious Tract Society for Bouverie Street |
| 2:23.2 | and 65 St. Paul's Churchyard, London, E.C. Let's pick up right where we left off at the beginning of Chapter 13. |
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