The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1886-09-09

Inc, and the oleomargarine that Is made |
returns Of the same. On October ],
when the law goes into effect, all oleomarg.
arine In the hands of dealers must be in |
wooden packages of not less than ten pounds. |
and all not properly marked is to be seized. |
HOUsEKEEPERS PESTS.
Complaint is made from various sections
of band OF baking powder tramps whose
tricks upon unsuspecting housekeepers
seem to take very much of the nature of
operations. The band Is COM
posed of women, aith ough employed and
directed by an agent of the other sex, and
their methods Of procedure. as explained by
several ladies who have been victimized, is
as 10 lows: OBJ tanning access to the kitchen,
they introduce the subject of baking powders
inquiring the kind used in the family. Be-
ing shown the can, perhaps a fresh. full one,
they volunteer to TEST It to ascertain its
qualities. Their "test' consist in placing
the can on a hot stove or over a lamp or gas
] ct. or in mixing the baking powder with
water botk hot and cold. II the baking
powder is good for anything the heat will.
Of course, expel the gas, which, being am.
moniacal or carbonic, is apparent to the
sense of smell. The claim is then made
that this odor indicates something detri.
mental although, as matter of facts baking
powder that would give of no gas when SUBJ
jected to heat would be without leavening
power and valueless. They viii also mix
the baking powder given them with water.
II pure 1t sffervesces quickly. The baking
powder they peddle being similarly mixed
foams up slowly like yeast. standing, per.
haps, over the top of the glass. This they
claim as evidence Of superiority. whereas 1t
is the exhibition of a trick only, their bak.
ing powder having been specially prepared
TO make this test by the addition of -four,
gum or albumen. 1t is sure evidence Of adj
liberation. or course the Object of these
fraudulent tricks is to destroy confidence in
all other kinds of baking powder. and to
sell the particular brand for which the
women are travelling.
Were this the whole Of the operation
housekeepers would not often be deceived.
Every intelligent person knows that baking
powder is not made to be used in this way,
but in cooking where its action is entirely
different from that produced by dry heat or
by mixture with water alone. The chief OBJ
iect of this jugglery is to destroy tho baking
powder given for testing; or by heating it to
drive of Its leavening gases, and SO weak
en- IL that when used 1t will fail TO work.
AT the next baking there is heavy food. Of
course, and tt tramp probably gets the
credit of having told the housekeeper a val
liable fact, instead OF having spoiled her
baking powder, as was actually the ca. Q,
The average tramp" will, in this way, de-
stroy from fifty TO seventy-five pounds Of
baking powder a day. ....
A second method of spelling for use the
baking powder in a kitchen where they are
not permitted TO experiment with 1t, is by
dexterously throwing in the same quantity
of salt, soda or powdered lime. Again.
should there chance to be no baking powder
in the house, the operations will produce,
Of the kind used by the family,a sample
that has been purposely adulterated or
"doctored" to make such an exhibit as they
desire under the so-called test.
The only way 10 protect our food from
being contaminated by tramps of this kind
is to turn all persons who wish or attempt
to tamper with 1t unceremoniously from
| the door, and to use those articles, only,
| which experience has proved satisfactory,
I or the Official tests have established as pure
and wholesome.