Litchfield enquirer., 1877-09-20
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COOKING lN oomMoa.
PREPARING DINNERS IN BAKE.O .OvEEs .FORa
 st4; s.ea~an, COMMUNITIES. fr-rF sf


 tween whom and the professors of the cu-
 linary art there. exists anything but warm affection. That class is composed of per
 sons wh5, not content with adhering sole ly to the occupation indicated by the re-ul presentation of twist of bread ,painte1 On tin sign that swings in front of their shop door, go far toward monopolizing all the meat-roasting, pudding; baking and
 other cookery necessary for the tables of
 their respective customers and neighbour There are comparatively few bakers in thoo, city who are not also what nay be- called wholesale cooks, and who d0 not assist in heavily discounting the ordinary pfofes
 sional. It is only during the ddoWhslove
 season, however, hatsthese remarks hold strictly true. In warm weather it paya
 poor people better to get HtheiF sainm1rH cooked in afbakers. oven than in their o4n stoves-or ranges, and they seize upon fhe advantage. People of less limited means
 do as the poorer classes do, partly to econ omlze. but mainly co avoid adding artifis cial to the already sintolerablel natural
 heat Such bakers are probably more
 numerous in Kensington and Richmond
 than in any other quaEter of the city. In
 those places there are about two hundred
 bakers, upon whom fully four thousand
 families depend for considerable portion
 of their cooking. The writer visited Q
 bakery on Fourth street, below Grnd
 avenue, at eleven o'clock yesterday morn
 ing, and found twenty five pans of beef,
 mutton. lamb and other meats roasting m : the oven. .rses 1'uln E.itf
 Y We charge five cents. a, pan for the
 roasting" said the baker. ''All these pans
 are of nearly the same size. (about one
 and half feet long and one foot wide)s
 but while this one contains only three
 pounds, there are seven pounds in that one. But one occuping as such space in
 the oven as the other, we charge the same
 price for both. Yesterday we baked three
 dozen pies for two cents apiece, two doz-
 en leaves of bread, each weighing one and
 quarter pounds for four cents 'g pan.
 there being four loaves in pan; one dUz.
 en of rice and other puddings, each about
 ten inches in diameter and five or six in.
 ches deep, for three cents apiece. and tWO
 dozenlpf, sponge. cakes, each about ns
 large as one of the puddings,, at Che rate of two for five ceuts. All this food vas
 prepared for to-day, We have abouk fifty
 customers who get such work done Eegu.
 larly. They are principally people, of
 moderate means.
 The richer and poorer persons for whom
 we cock are about equal in numbee. We
 do about half Rs much cooking 3On each of
 the other days of the week as we did for
 to day. 1t is not altogether because they
 can avoid heat and go to late church ser n' vice with unburdened mInds that they thus employ the bakers, but also because
 our charge is less than what the work
 would cost if done in their own houses.
 This oven was hot this morning after last
 nights baking, and 1t required only half bushel of coal to cook these twenty i've pans of meat. If they were, separately, cooked in as many stoves or ranges. each
 would require the consumption Of about e-third as much coal as we have used in cooking them all The half bushal costs about fifteen cents, and we get $L26 for the work, netting enough to pay for our time and trouble. In winter comparatively little of this kind of work IS done, because the people must have fire then to keep, themselves warm, and they would be i'm. prevalent not to use it for eooking. l,f E ''As rule the larger the lump of meat the poorer the family that sends it, partly because the poor generally have larger families and better appetites than the rich, and partly because the'ric afS'I ire. quently more close listed about such mat ters than the poor. The meat sent here by the poor is of as good quality, too, as that from the more favored of fortune We make no mistakes, such as giving As pan to B, or vice versa, because when. A brings his pan in we. thrust into it's con. tents piece of tin bearing number, and give him card with the same number. He goes away, comes, back when his dlsh is cooked, presents his card and gets his article. The bakers in West Philadelphia do very little of this work, owing to tho great number of wealthy people residing there, who have furnaces in the rear of their houses"
 About noon women and young girls be. gan coming in for their pans, and threw the baker into business too absorbing to permit of more tall, except to his custom CTS. before they were all served. -f PhiLG- dekpkiG Times.
 DoM PEDRO. The Emperor of Brazil is the only hereditary ruler in South Ameri. ca. The anomaly of hls situation is sufi. ciently obvious, and the prospects of his heir are shadowY in the extreme. The re. publican system is popular with the un- principled and ambitious men who usual ly occupy themselves with the affairs of government in the newly settled countries on the verge of the civilized world. The possibility of his own election to the Pres- ideney of his State Is present to the mind of many g competitor for power; and all are ready to combine against the heredita- ry principle which shuts the door impar- tially against all aspiTants. The Empire g of Brazil is held together butlOsely by |, the existing constitution, n It is rather a, fedefation of separate States nnder m Emperor, than compact and homogene- ous empire. If. the empire were Co be transformed hereafter into republic; it would be split mp into several indepena. ent States. Bahia, Pernambueo, Hio i. Grande eSul, and Rio de Janeiro, wpulds si each become the seat of a separate govern. ment, and new focus of intrigue and rae pacisys The reasons why c republican rather than a monarchical form Of govern %. ment would be adopted, are, not for to eeekl ..Those who speculate on change, q ,. says Burke, talways make great pnms .s bsf among people of rank and fortune, as s, well hs among the low and indigent. 1" How true is this remark in reference to the af- fairs lof the Old World, and how iDevita- a ble is such condition of mems minds in q new and unsettled community. The personal influence of the present rulef is ped the, chief security for the maintenance Of a form of government of Brazil. The Emper. or, as his habits of life during his. tiaits to Eprope testify, is endned with untiring energyt He manifestss asdeep interest in schools, and frequently. opens new ednca.s I bional establishments and training colleQ- es in person. By these manifestations of solicitude for their social elevation, the hearts of the Brazilians are won 0vefa to- the imperial cause. We know the good L effect in England of royal visits Co ], the q. city and the provincial towns, and of man. ifestktions Of syhhPathy from high quat: ters withEthe great CaaIssi of social ini-lo At the date tofsour visit theofa public mind in Brazil. Freemasonry A fourishes throughout the Empire and the Pope had recently promulgated an edict that all Freemasons were to be-, deprived l of the privileges, of membership of the Church of Rome. The course which the Emperor would take was a subject of