The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-29
GREELEY ON DOUGHNUTs.

The following is Mr.. Greeley's
celebrated letter on doughnuts,
which was presented in the Penn
slyvainia Legislature few days ago
by the Committee on Agriculture,
and is now attracting much atten-
ton among the farmers.
TRIBUNE OFFICE, Feb 81. 1872.
Mr.. J r. y. Reading, PeRnsyE-
c0nid:
MY DEAR SIR: Your favor OF
the 9th inst. is just received ia ref
ereEce to the admission of colored
children into the public schools OF
your city, and containing q copy of
your remarks at a meeting held by
your colored citizens. 1 will for
ward your remarks to Washington,
as requested and think you need
have no fears of removal. / am
forming no opinion just now on the
question, bat think Mr.. Summers
bill will settle the whole matter. A
great deal of my time the past sea-
son has been occupied in preparing
new and enlarged edition of
"What L Know About Farming" a
most excellent and serviceable book,
which / think you ought to have.
Il Will send you a copy, postage
prepaid, on receipt ofprice, $500
AS tue season is advanced and has
kept me in the house s great deal, 1
have been trying to better the con-
dition of our people by endevoring
TO make improvements in cook
ing.
For some years 1 have fou nd that
doughnuts lie too heavy on my
stomach, which my physician attri-
butes to the fat in which they are
fried. They tell me that a doughnut
contains about eighty times as much
fat as is consistent with the dough-
Tut. To overcome this difficulty l
gone to considerable philosophical
research. BY using only one eighth
Of the usual amount of fat for frying
them, Mrs. Greedy assured me that
doughnuts would burn. BY using
eight times as much -four, l would
have eight times as many dough-
nuts az / wanted. l therefore de-
termined to use eight times the
usual amount of sots. Mrs g. NIX
ed up the batter in the bread bowl
having made most exact porpor-
tons, put in one pint of sots. The
next moraing on entering the kitch-
en-, we found that the batch of
doughnuts had risen about ninety
degrees above. our highest expecta-
tons, and the tide was still raising.
Mrs. G. heated the Lard while l |
tried to stir down the batter, but |
all to no use. / poured in some fat, |
but it only spirited and.crackled, and |
l was mortified to find my exper-
iment a failure, as the doughnuts |
would not stick together. Too |
much sots in q doughnut is worse |
than Carl Schnrz in a caucus.
But L am not dismayed. Educa- |
ton has done much for tie hnman |
mind, and there is no reason in phil
osophy why it should not do as
much for doughnuts. To preserve |
the tone of the doughnut without
fst, l substituted alchohol for lard,
but the consequence was that Mrs.
G.. and myself narrowly escaped |
with our lives. We only saved |
three doughnuts out of the batch,
two of whiOh we ate and sent the |
third to Mr.. Beecher. They were /
truly delicious, but they are too |
high priced, and the manufacture is
attended with too nut i risk for this
brand ever to become apOpular diet.
Those we made cost about seventy
five cents apiece.
Let me hear what your colored
citizens are going to do with the
school board.
1 hear that in your vicinity you
raise small fruit called pertzels,
which are said to be very good
when cooked. Please send me a
few seeds and / will set them out in
the spring. Yours truly, Horace
Greedy.
P s. When passing through
Allentown lately, a boy came
through the cars with cakes and q
peculiar fruit called suits. bought
a few and set them out, but fear our
climate is too severe for them. III
you will send me a few healthy
vines will give them another trial
i'll my green house.
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