The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-10-10
HORNS BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY.

HORNS BAKERY AND CONFECTIONERY.
Continuing our series of articles
descriptive of Honolulu industries,
we propose to-day to take our readers
where they will get something more
necessary to life on these Islands
than even doors, windows, or car
rages, and to lay before them some
thing more digestible than wood and
iron. This morning the writer
dropped into Mr.. Horns bakery and
confectionery, at II Hotel street,
and asked to he shown over the pre-
misses, so MS to be able to give the
public an idea of the amount of
skill and labor back of the windows
so artistically and inyitingly filed
with dainties. The proprietor, seeing
nothing about his interviewer to in
dicate marauder after his trade
secrets-of which the business has
its share-chcerfully complied. Pass
ing through the shop and crossing
clean yard, large building of cor
rugatcd iron is entered. 1t is Ga by
"a feet, one half being the bake shop
and the other the confectionery. In
the latter the first things noticeable
are two immense marble slabs, the
largest in town, one of them weigh
ing two tons. They are for working
candy paste on. Here is the apparatus
for making machine drops, the method
being to pass sheets of candy dough
through rollers indcnted in fancy
mouds. Beside it lay large variety
of these rollers, and the change
from one pattern to another is quickly
! made. There are six extra candy
machines, and varied assortment
of large moulds in plaster of Paris,
wood and brass. These moulds were
made hy the proprietor himself.
Several cunningly devised machines
are in use for the cutting, grinding
and beating OF various articles enter
ing into the composition Of confec-
tionery. The beatcr makes GOO
revolutions a minute. The crystalliz-
I ing, as well as the rolling, depart
mcnt is fully equipped, containing Il
copper revolving pan of l2j pounds
capacity. AS our readers know,
Mr.. Horn lost his entire outfit by
fire year ago, and has not yet COM
pleted the retitting of his establish
ment with machinery A superior
cake machine, with Il capacity of s
or pounds minute. is not yet
replaced, but with the confectionery
department at its old-tmc standard
the bakery will no doubt have its
labor-savers restored in due time.
The machinery is all run by a five
horse power engine. AS it is, Mr..
Horn turns out superior pastry in
extensive variety, from the imposing
wedding cake to the toothsome little
cookie for the baby. The massive
and artistic wedding cake given to
the last exhibition, of which we have
seen the photograph, is familiar, no
doubt, to most of our readers. In
creams the establishment yields
second place to no other, and in
other varieties its products seem to
be of the very finest quality. Not
only in pastry, but in the staff of
life itself, does this bakery take first
rank. Nothing could be more well
come to the hungry man than loaf
of its plain, really homemade,
bread, or more wholesome to the
stomach weary of dainties than its
fresh brown bread. The proprietor
is so particular about the quality Of
his manufactures that he over-works
himself to supply his custom, rather
than employ any but the most COM
petent help. This is the oldest es-
tablishment of the kind in the King
dom, having been started in 1864,
and in some departments it still
stands alone.
A NOBLE SUBJECT JUST NOW.