Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-01-15
CRACKER MANUFACTURE.
The Journey from Flour Barrel to Crackey
BoX Described In Detnil.


gan roller process flour are used; white
wheat flour for color and rcd wheat
flour for strength.
Here are ten large troughs 20 feet
long and of width and depth to hold
the dough made from 10 TO - barrels
OF flour. The troughs for mornings
baking are filled with flour, the yeast
put in and set to sponge over night.
The afternoons baking is similarly
treated at early morning. Hare Is u
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 u
free lunch iiend only in totally diff
ferent way.
The critical time approaches. Two
vigilant employees scoop channel
through the flour, 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
n fine frenzy. Just before its "mad
ambition doth o'erleap ITSELF" the bar
rier is broken away and the foamy cur
rent nils the noury banks The two
vigilantes, barred as to arms, go Mt 1t
with a vim, mixing, kneading, Juggling
and lifting at the doughty mass
Three times must it thus be handled,
ton and quarter to ton and n half
each time, and eight to ten such
doughs daily. There's health lift for
one, quite as energetic as rowing or
baseball and thousandfold more USE
ful.
The kneaded dough- having reached
the required lightness, is run through
mixer, Il machine with an apparatus
like a gigantic corkscrew, revolving in
box. Thoroughly mixed, it is placed
ON large receiving trays, where it puifs
itself up quite equal to Mrs. Parvenu
in four-story stone-front.
Marvellous how light-hearted it keeps
under tribulation! III it only knew!
For right here is machine called a
"break, having two rollers 20 inches
long ana Sin diameter, and an appetite
for dough that is never satisfied. The
keeper OF the jovial monster grasps q
nice little biscuit OF 40 to 100 pounds
weight and losses 1t into the hopper.
With fierce growl OF pleasure, the
machine grasps its feed and deposits it
in neatly-folded blanket oil dough on
the table beneath.
With deit motion the keeper filings
1t in again and again until at the sixth
inning it is called out by the umpire,
nice little blanket or form, 9 to 8
feet long, = feet wide and to inches
thick.
Stacked up on the trays. it rapidly
reoovers its spirits. Another keeper
seizes the form and PUSHES 1t through
smaller break, which closely imi-
tates the actions and Jovial snarl OF its
tull-growh brother The form emerges
from Its ordeal prose poem IN dough.
The at'enuated form Is passed over
TO the tender mercies OF the cutting
machine where sets oil rollers hug 1t
down until thln enough to be con-
sldered teautliuL linen a plunglng
apparatus stamps out the crackers. A
little farther on a brush device de-
sends and forces the three-cornered
fragments ana crumbs out on hrst base.
ms affects a great saving, and Is one
oil the cutest things In the house
Beside thls machine Is lhe oven
Here stands an operative with a thin
BOARD ABOUT TWO feet by Jour tech
nlcally called a peel working with
all the automatic precision and regu-
larlty oil a machlne' he slips the peel
under the oncomlng stream OF crackers
llfts OH strip ~ Inches VIDE by
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