The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-03-05

q seene I'm The Rcnnsy iynnfa IcEsstas-
anrc..Hornee esreeIey ON tho Rfliitos, 70
& rl,y OF DouEhnuts-Tsae Cnlsnrs O.
d Preszcls.-Wbat he Knows About
,Sniss and Sutss s.. Fysss $500 Z, ).
The following recent proceedings an shc'
Pennsylvania Senate are from the 1eg's'al's'S'es
Record: ~ lat.
Mr. MlImn,a sent to the clerks desk l lss-
tor stoned g Horace Greeley" which ne oe'
sired the clerk to read. - f,r,n-
Mr.. BIrngfelt: Does thatsreiaee ~ - -,
ing? {, re,otes to culinary
i'i snsSa Glory read the letter as follows:
Tr,apsr orricr, January q, 1872.
,,.r r y. Reading, Pennsylvania:
AZ. nc,r sir.-Yonr favor of the sosh
,,,s.cr+ Ia inst received IN reference 70 the
S,',,ss,on NJ colored children into the pubic
schooJs of your city, and containing copy
s ~ To,,r remarks ut a meeting held by your
o " citizens. I will forward your re,
marks to Washington, as requested, anu
think YOU need have no fears OF removal.
am forming no opinion just now on the ques-
ton. but think Mr.. Summers bill! VIII settle
tle whole matter. A great deal OF my tsme
the past season has been occupied IN Pre-.
parinp new and enlarged edition OF !" w hat
! Know About Farming" most ekceieht
and seryiceable book, which 1 THINK you
ought to have. q will send you copy, posi-
ace prepaid, on receipt of price, Sl.oo.) AS
the season IS advanced and h;s kept me III
the house great deal, have been trying 70
I,etter the condition of our people by en-
de,vor;no TO make improvements in cooking.
For some wears / have found that dough-
nuta lie too heavy on my stomach, when my
nhvsicians attribute to the fat in which they
are fried. They tell me that doughnut con-
to;ns about eight times as much fat as IS con-
sistent with q doughnut. TO overcome tnls
ditculty I have gone to considerable phllo-
Sor,hicai research. By using only one-elghth
Of the usual amount Of fat for frying tnem
Mrs Greeley assured me the doughnuts
would burn. BY using eight times as much
f1onr. I would have just eight times as many
Iouchnuts as wanted. therefore detef-
mined to use eight times the usual quanuty'
of sots. Mrs. 6. mixed up the batter IN the
breakdown. and having made the most exact
l put in one pint OF sots. line
neyt morning, on entering the kitchen, we
found that the batch Of doughnuts had risen
obout ninety degrees above our highest ex-
nectations. and the tide was still rising. Mrs.
q. heated the lard while | tried to sur
down the batter, but all to no use. poured
in some fat. but it only spirited and crack
led and was mortified to find my expert
mont n failure. as the doughnuts would not
stick together. Too much sots in dough-
mt il worse than Carl Schurz in caucus.
But I was not dismayed. Education has
done much for the human mind, and there is
no reason in philosophy why it should not 90
as mich for douchnuts. TO preserve the
tone Of the doughnut without the fat, sub
stit,ted alcohol for lard, but the consequence
was that Mrs. G. and myself Narrowly e.
capped with our lives. We on! saVea thiee
dourhnuts out of the batch, two OF which
we eat, and sent the third to Mt. Beecher.
Thew were truly delicious, but they are too
hirh-nriced. and the manufacture is attended
with too much risk for this brand ever to be-
come a popular article of diet. Those we
made cost about serenty-three cents apiece.
Let me hear what your colored citizens are
going to do with the school board. -
I hear that in your vicinity you raise q
small fruit called pretzels. which ore said to
he good when cooked. Please send me few
seed. and Twill set them out in the spring.
Yours, truly, HORACE GREELEY.
p. S.-NVhen passing through Allentown
lately, boy came through the cars with
cakes and a peculiar fruit called snits. /
bought few aud set them out, but fear our
climate is too severe for them. If you will
be kind enough to send me q few healthy
vines would like to give them another trial
in my greenhouse. H. u.
On motion of Mr.. Dill the committee rose,
reported progress, and asked leave to sit
upain s-