1914 Beverages de luxe

"In following up these traces, we meet with relationship much more ancient than all these, namely with the Indo-Germanic 'bhru," whence too, the Phrygo-Thracian beer, 'bryton,' takes its name. But more than that, according to the etymological au- thorities, the root Tor brewing and bread is the same, about which Prof. Fr. Kluge says: 'In lii'cad it would be wrap])ed up in the si)ecial significance of "baking." ' Hence we again call attention to the theory, several times promulgated by us in this work, that brewing and baking went together in prehi.s- toric times. Indeed, we go further than that. We claim that the primary activity of baking, namely, the prepai'ation of the bread, and tiie primary activity of brewing, namely, the prepara- tion of the bread mash (dough mash), is really one and the same The linguistic conception was the .same, in the al)original form of the Indo-European tongue (says Klug) and we claimed that the activity itself (i. e., that which is expre.ssed by the verb) is also identical in brewing and baking. We do not mean to say, how- ever, that brewing and baking — as one might be inclined to suppo.se from the identity of the root 'bhru' — originated both at the same time. Indeed, 'baking' is more ancient than 'brew- ing,' and in this sense, too, the roasted or toasted dough-cake is older than the liquor brewed out of this 'bread.' But just be- cau.se 'to make a bread-ma.sh' is derived from 'to make bread,' for this very same reason brewing is derived from 'bread-mak- ing.' "

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