The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-02-27

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IL Senate at Harrisburg, a member who
properly appreciated the Office of ridicule,
sent up to the clerks desk, and had read
the following letter. The bill was with
drawn.
Tribune Office, Jan. 27, 1872.
Mr.. J. I. ", Reading Pa. Is. ~ |
Mn Dear Str Your favor of the 25th
inst, is just received in reference to the
admission of colored children into the
public schools of your city and containing
q copy of your remarks at n meeting held
by your colored citizens / will forward
your remarks to Washington as requested.
am forming no opinion just now on the
question, but think that Mr.. Summers bills
will settle the whole matter. A great deal
of my time the past season has been occu-
pied in preparing new and enlarged cdi-
ton of "What know about Farming" n
most excellent and serviceable book which
think you ought to have q will send
you a copy, postage prepaid, on receipt of
price 81. .50.) AS the season is advanced
and kept me in the house a great deal,
have been trying to better the condition of
our people by endeavoring to make inn
provements in cooking. aHI
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 a dough-
nut contains about eight times as much fat
as is consistent with deughnut. To over
come this difficulty, have gone to con-
siderable philosophical research. By using
only one-eight of the usual amount of fat
for frying them, Mrs. Greedy assures me the
doughnuts would burn. BY using eight
times as much flour, | would have eight
times as many doughnuts us l want. l
therefore determined to use eight times the
usual quantity of sots Mrs. G.. mixed up
| the batter in the bread bowl, and having
made most exact proportions, put in one
pint of sots. The next morning on enter
ing the kitchen, we found that our batch of
doughnuts had risen about ninety degrees
above our highest expectations, and the
tide was still rising. Mrs. G.. heated the
lard while downed the batter, but all to
no use. l poured in some fat, but it only
spirited and cracked, and l was mortified
to find my experiment failure, rs the
doughnuts would not stick together. Too
much sot in n doughnut is worse than Carl
Schurz in caucus.
But was not dismayed Education has
done much for the human mind, and there
is no reason in philosophy why it should
not do so much for doughnuts. To pre-
seveve the tone of the doughnut without
fat, substituted alchohol 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 of which we ate and sent the other to
Mr.. Beecher They were truly delicious,
but they are too high priced and the manu-
facture is attended with too much risk for
this brand ever to become popular article
of diet Those we made cost about seventy
three cents piece. .,r
Let me hear what your colored citizens
are going to do with the school board.
heard that in your vicinity you raise a
small fruit called pretzels which are said
to be good when cooked. Please send me a
few seed and will set them out in the
spring. Yours truly,
d" HORACE GREELEY
p. S.-Whcn passing through Allentown
some time ago, q boy came through the cal
with cakes and peculiar fruit called snits
l bought few and set them out, but feal
that our cline is too severe for them. II
you will be kind enough to send me few
healthy vines, would like to give them
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