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Sifted flour is piped into a huge electric mixing bowl called a hopper and mixed with yeast and warm water. It comes out of the hopper as a large ball of dough.
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It is wheeled into a warm, damp room. Here t
makes gass bubbles. The bubbles push aroun
the dough, causing it to spread out and start
the yeast
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Now the dough, puffier than before, is wheeled into a machine that mixes it with salt and vitamins. It then goes back into the warm, damp room to rise more.
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Next, two machines shape the dough into
smaller loaves.
After it rises for a third time,
it glides on a mov
HUGE O where people watch it through small windows.
ing belt through
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It emerges once baked, is cooled, sliced, and wrapped by machines.
This book was made by Shelby Lindblad in the Spring of 2013 at Washington University in St. Louis. Image sources include wikimedia.org, wikipedia.org, ticona-photos.com, Matt Waples, LIFE Magazine, and the US National Archives. Typeset in Meta, Wisdom Script, and Univers.