The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1872-03-21

The following is Mr.. Greeley celebrated
letter ON doughnuts, which was presented in
the Pennsylvania Legislature few days ago,
by the Committee on Agriculture, and is now
attracting much attention among the farmers:
TRIBUNE OFFICE, Feb. q, 1872.
Mr. J. T. y Reading, Peaasy,r,u'ia:
Ny DEAR SIR: Your favor Of the 18th
inst, is Just received in reference to the adj
mission of co.orcd children into the public
schools of your city, and containing copy
of your remarks at 4 meeting held by your
coloied citizers. l will forward your re-
marks to Washington, as requested, and think
you need have no fears OF removal l am
forming no opinion just now on the question,
but think Mr.. Summers bill Will settle the
whole matter. \ great deal of MY lme the
past season has been occHpied in preparing a
new and enlarged edition OF "Wnat l Know
About Farming" 4 most excellent and ser
yiceable book, which think you ghtto have.
Il will send You copy, postage prepaid, on
receipt of price, 81 50). As the season is
advanced and has kept me in the house
great deal, l have been trying to better the
condition Of our people by endeayoring TO
make improvements in cooking.
For some years have found that dough-
nuts lie too heavy on my stomach, which my
physicians attribute to the fat in which they
are fried. They tell me that doughnut
contains about eighty times rs much fat as Is
consistent with the doughnut. To overcome
this difficulty | have gone 10 considerable
philosophical research. BY using only one
eighth of the usual amount of fat for frying
them, Mrs. Greeley assured me the dough-
nuts would burn. By using eight times as
mush -four, l would have eight times IS
many doughnuts as ] wanted. / therefore
determined to use eight times the usual guam
tity of sots Mrs. q. mixed up the batter IN
the bread bowl having made most exact pro-
portions, put in one pint of sots. The next
morning, on entering the kitchen, We found
that the batch Of doughnuts had risen about
ninety degrees above our highest expecta-
tons. and the tide was still raising. Mrs. q.
heated the lard while tried 20 stir down the
batter, but all TO no use. | poured in some
fat, bu, it only spirited and cracked, and |
was mortified TO find my experiment fail
ure, as the doughnuts would not stick toSeth-
er. Too much sots in a doushnut Is worse
than Carl Schurz in caucus.
But was no. dismayed. Education has
done much lOf lie uuiuin iiiiih, hiiu titiS 10
no reason in philosophy why it should not
do as much for doughnuts. To preserve the
tone of the doughnut without the fat, l sub
stilutcd alcohol for lard, but the consequence
was that Mrs. q. and myself narrowly
escaped with our lives. We only saved three
doushnuts out ofthe batch, two OF which We
ate and sent the third TO Mr.. Beecher. They
we're truly delicious, but they are too high
priced, and the manufacture is attended with
100 much risk for this brand ever TO become
a popular diet. Those We made cost about
seventy-fve cents apiece.
Let ME hear what your colored citizens are
going to do with the school board.
hear that in your vicinity You raise
small fruit called preizels, which are said TO
be very good when cooked. Please send NE
few seed, and will set them out in the
spring. Yours, truly, Horace Greeley.
z. S.-When passing through Allentown
lately, a boy came through the cars with
cakes and peculiar fruit called suits. l
bought few and set them out, bnt fear our
climate is too severe for them. II you will
sent me few healthy vines, l would give
them another trial in my green house