Sunday, April 12th, 2009
A Bread Line (Unleavened, Please) for Passover
(“Weighing and Delivering of the Matzos or Unleavened Bread,” from Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly magazine, August 1877. )
” The price was 4¾ cents per pound, much cheaper than the current going price — “this being the lowest offer tendered,’’ the records noted — and a total of 14,330 pounds were bought.The order was distributed among […]