Boulted (or bolted) bread is bread made from sifted flour. Flower was
sifted by shaking it through a course cloth which was called a bolt. I
would guess it made a rather better sort of bread for use in the home - as
opposed to some sort of rough old stuff used, for example, in institutions.
I am fairly sure this is right though it depends mainly on my recollection
of seeing a bolting room in an old house somewhere.
Frank Sharman
Wolverhampton
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