Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-06-26
WHAT III. G. KNOWS ABOUT COOK
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The Celebrated DouGnnut, Snitz and
PretzeI Correspondence in Fun.

The Celebrated Doughnut, Snttz and
1 Pre:zeI Correspondence In Fun.
| From the Reading Eagle. r ss5
! TRIBUNE OFFICE, February 27, 1872.
Mr.. j. r T. Reading, Pa. s sa
| My DEAR SIR: Your favor of the
Dist inst. is just received in reference
to the admission of colored children
into tho public schools Of your city,
| and containing a copy of your remarks
| at a meeting held by our colored citi-
zens = will forward your remarks to
| Washington, as requested, and think
you need have no fears of removal, [
am forming no opinion just now on the
question, but Z think Mr. Sum
nerIs bill will settle the whole matter.
| A great deal of9my time the past sea-
I son has been occupied in preparing a
fneW and enlarged edition of g What /
Know. About Farming" most excel
lent and serviceable book, wEich I
think you ought to have. Iwill send
you copy, postage prepaid, on receipt
of price, 81 50) As the season is adj
vanced, and has kept me in the house
la great deal, L have been trying to bet
ter the condition of our people by
endeavoring to make improvements in
cooking. For some years I found that
doughnuts lay too heavy on ny stomach,
which my physicians attributed to the
fat in which they are fried. e. They tell
me that a doughnuts contain about
eighty times as much fat as is iconsis-
tent with the doughnut. To overcome
this difficulty [ have gone to considera-
bic philosophic research. By using
only one-eighth Of the usual amount of
| fat fer frying them, Mrs. Greeley as
sured me that deughnuts would burn.
BY. using eight, times as much flour,
doughnuts as [ wanted. / therefore
al quantity If of sots. Mrs. g. mixed
up the batter in the breakdown hav-
| ing most exact proportions, put in
ON entering the kitchen, we found that
the 81 batch of Ii doughnuts had
risen about ninety degrees above
our highest expectations, and the tide
was still rising. Mrs. G heated the
lard while tried to stir down the bat
ter, but all to no use. [ poured IN
some fat, but it spirited and cracked,
4 and [ was mortified to find my expert
ment a failure, as the doughnuts would
not stick together. Too much sots in
! doughnuts is worse than Carl Schurz in
caucus. But I was not dismayed. :
Education has done much for the hui
man mind, and there is no reason in
| philosophy why it should not do as
much for doughnuts. To preserve the
tone of the donghnut without the fat,
III substited alcohol for lard, but the
consequence was that Mrs. G. and my
self narrowly escaped with our lives
| We only saved three doughnuts out of
! the batch, two off which we ate, and
sent one to Mr.. Beecher. They were
truly delicious, but they are too high
! priced, and the manufacture is attend
ed with too much risk for this brand
! ever to become popular diet. Those
we made cost about twenty-five cents a
piece. Let me hear what your colored
citizens are going to do about the
school board. l hear that in your vicin-
ity you raise small fruit called pret-
| zels, which are said to be very good
when cooked Please send me a few
seed, and [ will set them out in the
spring. Yours, truly .
| HORACE GREELEY.
P. S.-When passing through Allen
town lately, a boy came through the
cars with cakes and peculiar fruit
called snits. l bought q few and set
them out, but fear our climate is too