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Secale

Pastry or that crust made by kneading up
flour, fat or butter & water, makes one of the most
indigestable of all aliments. Pies & tarts should
always be forbid to the flatulent, dyspeptic et&c.
The under crust of the pye is the most difficult
of digestion. I have known a crust of this
to remain a week in the stomach & very
little changed. Boiled dough dumplings; is very
difficult of digestion, in the philosophical
transactions a case is recorded of the death from
eating apple dumplings. Another evince is
that pastry is always served up after dinner
& hence when the stomach is almost exhausted
with previous digestion a fresh burthen is
imposed upon it.

Secale. Rye resembles wheat in its properties
but contains more sugar & more spirit, hence
its sweet taste, & you know the quantity of spirit
made from it in every part of our country.