Dear Houswives - If you love your husbands, keep them away from white bread

Ah you look at the cover of the book and chuckle to yourself, this should be full of patronising do's and don'ts of a 1950's housewife (I accompanied my mooseboy to his aunts house which is stuffed with books which we are encouraged to look through) .  Upon reading the opening to yourself, in a very prissy upper middle class interior voice, you discover tone and prissy-ness galore. BUT, then it strikes you in the back of the head like a dense whole-wheat loaf which is filled with goodness and made with love, that Doris Grant is a woman ahead of her time.  I dropped the prissy voice, surreptitiously took the book from the room it had rested in for years went outside with my find, sat on the very cold concrete edging in the garden, finding the only piece of sun and started reading, properly. 
This slim volume of passionate discourse, is about the benefits of eating non processed food, demanding food that has been untouched by science or as Doris says, (I feel I can drop the formal Mrs Grant and call her Doris as she is now my newly formed reading companion) men of science. 
Needless to say Mooseboy's aunt very graciously gave me Dear Housewife and the companion book Your Daily Bread and as I sat with these treasures on my lap going home, I felt that I had discovered a new friend and I needed to know more about this 'go-get-at-it-ness' of a woman.
I researched when I got home and found that Doris "...early in her married life found herself incapacitated by arthritis, which became so bad that she found herself climbing the stairs on her hands and knees. A cousin, who was a doctor, then gave her an unusual prescription, consisting of three columns of proteins, starches and acid fruits with the instruction, "Don't mix foods that fight!" 
Doris's (now my very good friend) book has chapters labeled Public Enemy No. 1 & 2, Food, Health and Happiness, speaks passionately about the over refining of sugar, not mixing concentrated starches,sugar, and acid fruits in a meal.  In Your Daily Bread, she has a wonderful chapter labled Murdered Bread. I quote the wonderful style of Doris;

"Many people choose the white bread, firstly, because they are entirely ignorant of its potentialities for illness and unhappiness; secondly, because it is wrapped in the attractive whiteness of seeming purity; thirdly, never having tasted real brown bread they thing that white bread, on account of its colour, must taste better."

Doris's 'Real Bread' is wholewheat bread - which requires no kneading - her own discovery which I will be trialing today -

The Grant Loaf
To make three loaves
3 lb of stone-ground wholewheat flour;
two pints of water; two teaspoons of salt;
three teaspoons of Barbados sugar (or, alternatively, a tablespoonful of honey);
and three teaspoon measures of dried yeast
or for a smaller quantity
1lb/450g strong wholemeal or spelt flour
1 tsp brown sugar or honey
½ sachet
2 tsp salt
1 tbsp olive oil or melted butter
Mix the flour with the sugar or honey, yeast and 2 tsp salt. Stir in the oil or butter and ¾pt/420ml water to make a loose, sticky dough.
Scrape the dough into a greased 1lb/450g loaf tin.
Cover loosely with oiled gladwrap; leave in a warm place for 30 mins (until dough has risen by a third).
Preheat the oven to 220C

Bake for half an hour. Slip out of the tin and check that the base sounds hollow when tapped (if not, give it another 5-10 minutes). Cool on a rack.

To finish I quote again Doris who died at age 98;

"If you love your husbands, keep them away from white bread . . .If you don't love them, cyanide is quicker but bleached bread is just as certain, and no questions asked."