The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-10-18

nox Described In Uofat.
Step into one of Detroit's leading
cracker naanufactories, one using from
| 80 to 100 barrels 81 hour daily Moth
ing but the very bestbrands OF Michi-
gan roller process nour are used; white
wheat flour for color and red wheat
flour for strength ,.
Here are ten large trougns 20 feet
long and Of width and depth to hold
the dough made from 10 to IL barrels
Of flour The troughs for morning q
baking are filled with flour, the yeast
put In and set to sponge over night.
The afternoons baking Is similarly
treated at early morning. Here is o
trough with ton and quarter OF
dough- and from to 10 Of them are
filled daily. Higher and still higher
rises the ambitious yeast, light as
childhood's own heart and spongy as a
free lunch fiend -only IN a totally diff
ferent way. M
The critical time approaches. Two
vigilant employees scoop a channel
through the -four, leaving thin dam
at the end next the yeast. The short
ening, about two tierces to eighty bar
rels OF -four is put in and thoroughly
mixed. A few moments respite Is
utilized by the yeast to work itself into
a fine frenzy. just before IT'S mad
ambition doth o'erleap itself, the bar
rier is broken away and the foamy cur
rent fills the fioury banks The two
vigilantes. barred as to arms, go at it
with vim. mixing, kneading, Juggling
and lifting at the doughty mass.
Three times must it thus be handled,
q ton and quarter to a ton and half
each time, and eight to ten such
coughs daily. There's a health lift for
one, quite as energetic as a rowing or
baseball and thousandfold more use
full.
! The Sneaded dough, having reached
the required lightness, is run through
a mixer, a machine with an apparatus
like gigantic corkscrew, revolving in
box. Thoroughly mixed, it is placed
on large receiving trays, where it puffs
itself up quite equal to Mrs. Parvenu
| in four-story stone-front.
| Marvellous how light-hearted 1t keeps
under tribulation If it only knew!
For right here is a machine called a
.break,n having two rollers 20 inches
| long and s in diameter, and an appetite
| for dough that is never satisfied The
keeper of the jovial monster grasps a
nice little biscuit of rs to 100 pounds
weight and losses it into the hopper
With fierce growl of pleasure, the
machine grasps its feed and deposits ii
| in a neatly-folded blanket OF dough on
the table beneath.
With a def motion the keeper filings
| it in again and again until at the sixth
inning it is called out by the umpire, a
| nice little blanket or ''form," 6 to 8
! feet long, 2 feet wide and to inches
| thick.
Stacked up on the trays, it rapidly
RECEIVERS its spirits. Another keeper
a smaller break which closely imi-
tates the actions and jovial snarl of its
full-grown brother. The form energies
from its ordeal prose poem in dough.
The attenuated form is passed over
| to the tender mercies of the cutting
machine, where sets of rollers hug it
down until thin enough to be con-
/ sidered beautiful Then a plunging
apparatus stamps out the crackers. A
| little farther on brush device de-
sends and forces the three-cornered
fragments and crumbs out on first base.
This affects great saving, and is one
of the cutest things in the house.
Beside this machine is the oven.
Here stands an operative with a thin
board about two feet by four, tech
nically called a peel Working with
all the automatic precision and regu-
larity of a machine, he slips the peel
| under the oncoming stream OF crackers,
lifts off strip 20 inches wide by
| feet long and drops it into the
| oven. Whew! 1t is hot before the
oven, and would be worse but for an
immense fan worked overhead by ma
chinery.
The ovens are immense brick affairs,
heated by ton of coal daily, and con-
tanning immense reels ten feet in diam
eter, carrying. in manner to be al
ways level, twelve pans, on which the
crackers are baked. An assistant
rakes off the baked ones into a chute;
on goes the new lot, and descending
into thedepths OF cracker hades, pass
upward, down again, and in eight
minutes emerge purified in character
and fixed in form, light without levity
| and done to q turn.
Down the chute in heaslong haste
they go, have their tempers properly
cooled, and packed in boxes and bar
rels and shipped to those who know a
good thing when they taste it. Our
100 barrels of -four are now 400 bar.
rels of crackers. - Detroit Neios.
A Valuable Remedy.
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