Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-03-17
REVOLUTION IN THE BAKING BUsy.

NESS.
III must be matter of con gratnlati ton 20 those
who depend upon the public bakeries for their
bread, that probable revolution in the baking
business Is Mt hand. The invention of Borden.
known "a The mechanical bakery, has been
thoroughly tested In Philadelph phia; i,s success is
complete u nod Wholesome bread is prod uced
ut much less cost than by the old mode We
have long wondered that the public would sub
mt t9 use the pufed-np, sour. innutritious
snh falsely called bread, and day after day
pay their money away without an equivalent
We occasionally eat bakers bread, but never
do ~ without lnvoluntariiy anathcmatizinp the
entire system -nen, bread and processes
There should be pleasure in eating: he who can
extract any from bread, as ordinarily served
must nave yltIated taste, and have lost the
natural appreciation of gustatory enioyment
a correspondent of the New York Tribune
thus describes The operations of the mechanical
bakery in Philadelphia, which has been some
months in operation 4
" The great mechanical bakery continues its
operations, gradually enlargins the sphere of
It's usefulness without unnecessary parade. On
opening the Cttce door you discover evidences
OF a large business, and are greeted with the
wholesome perfume of newly-baked bread
which may be seen piled up on long counter
some soft and unctuous, bland as a muffin and
grateful to superannuated gums; while other
loaves are brown and crisp so as TO captiyate
the paiates of those whose teeth may be in a
condition Of rocky hardness Rverything about
the establishment is scrupulously clean, and
Placards are put up throughout the premises,
foroiddlng the smoking of pipes or cigars. chew.
ing TOBACCO or splitting on the floors Hard as
III may De 10 overcome this national vice of
chewing and splitting, it has certainly been
checked TO some extent on these premises, as
but faint indications Of either could be noticed
" The bakery now consists Of but one com
niete0 c1nahia Of hal r
flour every twenty four hours. second oven
o. equal capacity is being finished, not with
the expectation of selling Immediately the
bread from 500 barrels daily but for the pur.
pose of having IT in reserve IN case Of accident
10 the hrst For the same reason the company
nave not YET undertaken to serve families in
wagons direct from the bakery
= At present the public are supplied from
thirteen repositories in different parts Of the
city, where the freshly baked bread ia depos-
tied twice daily, and sold for account of the
company. The quantity sold at the Office is
some 900 ioaveS daily, and the whole sale from
the once and the thirteen repositories is large
enough to consume about 90 barrels of -four in
the same period. From the data il j. yery
moderate presumption that the company will
ne able to sell some hundreds Of barrels daiiy
before the year has expired.
- 30 Tar the bread gives entire satisfaction To
the consumers, and much of the opposition
iroA the Dakers ABOUT town has died out The
names OF some 800 families are now entered ON
the companys books as voluntary customers
ready TO consume the bread as soon as the com
PaDy may be ready to serve il direct from the
oven. 1hey have made no systematic effort To
obtain large number Of customers but have
been content To Introduce the bread gradually
before the public through the agency of local
repositories, 10 ascertain how the pu bIic would
relish the new article. Having satisfied con
sumers, both in regard to quality and price.
they are eniarging their operations and will
speedily manufacture II greatly increased sup
ply. They now give twenty seven ounces Of
bread tor five cents, which is some twenty ner
cent more bread for the same money than is
gwen by the private bakers. The compsny
WI" put thus great enterprise in operation i.
composed Of some ten Of our most worthy citi.
sens, with an abundant cash capital. able In
lake advantage Of any change in the -four
market. Up TO this time all has been OUTLAY
trial and experiment; and, indeed the whole
of the first year business may be considered
experimental.
But every thing thus far has been highly
encouraging oven succeeds the bread IS of
admirable quality, and the public demand for
IL IL constantly increasing If the ENTERPRISE
was In any sense a hazardous one. the vast
number OF mouths in this city which refuire
feeding two or three times daily justified tb.
risk. Our numerous hotels boarding bouscs
pubic institutions. &c. must in the end ba ALI
supplied from this bakery. The quantity they
consume Is 50 enormous that their PATRONAGE
alone, without addition from tho general nm
ie, would absorb all thar the establishment
could produce"