Some notes about bread

Just because it's a good excuse to avoid what I'm supposed to be looking for it amuses me to see the same issues being raised in letters to the editor or being complained about in newspaper columns. Plus some extra bits at the end because they were interesting.

BREAD.
Mr EDITOR—Flour of the very best quality is now selling at fifteen shillings per cwt., and bread at four pence the two-pound loaf, the same price it cost when flour was twenty-one shilling per cwt. Surely in common honesty the fall of six shillings per cwt. should have caused a fall of one penny per loaf, but, say the bakers, we have our stores filled with old flour bought at the former price. Thus they not only store up for a monopoly but charge beyond the fair market price for an inferior—perhaps damaged article. What will the corporation say to this. Will they wink at this overcharge!— Yours truly.

Australasian Chronicle, 28 January 1843

( Price rises due to crop failures )

( Imperishable bread )

( The Brown Loaf )

Potatoes

I resisted the obvious subject here :)
Following on from previous post...


GOOD OLD POTATOES,

At 8s. per Cwt.

IN consequence of the High Price of
Bread, the Proprietor of the Italian Ware-
house is induced to let the POOR have the
above article at the reduced price. No greater
quantity than 28lbs., for 2s., to each family,
can be had at one time.

Elizabeth street, Dec 17, 1839.

Colonial Times