Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-01-05
CRACKER MANUFACTURE.
The Journey from Flour Barrel to Cracker
Box Described In Detail.


cracker manufactures, one using from
50 to 100 barrels of flour daily. Moth
ng but the very best brands of Michi-
gan roller process flour are used; white
wheat flour for color and red wheat
Jour for strength.
Here are ten large troughs 20 feet
.ong and of width aud depth to hold
The dough made from 10 to y barrels
Of flour. The h'oughs for mornings
baking are filled with flour, the yeast
put in and set to sponge over night.
The afternoons baking is similarly
reated at early morning. Here is u
rough with ton and q quarter Of
Tough, and from to 10 of them are
allied daily. Higher and still higher
cises the ambitious yeast light as
childhood s own heart and spongy asa
Tree lunch fiend-only in totally diff
ierent way.
The critical time approaches. Two
rigilant employees scoop channel
through the flour, leaving n thin dam
at the end next the yeast, The short
ening, about two tierces to eighty bar
rels of flour, is put in and thoroughly
mixed. A few moments respite is
utilized by the yeast to work itself into
q fine frenzy. just before It's mad
ambition doth o'erleap itself" the bar
ricr Is broken away and the foamy cur
rent fills the iloury banks. The two
vigiluntes barred as to arms go at it
with vim, mixing, kneading, Juggling
and lifting at the doughty mass.
Three times must ii thus be handled,
q ton and quarter to a ton and half
each time, and eight to ten such
doughs daily. There's health lift for
one, quite as energetic as a rowing or
baseball and thousandfod more use
full.
The kncaded dough, having reached
the required lightness, is run through
a mixer, Il machine with an apparatus
like a gigantic corkscrew, revolving in
a box, Thoroughly mixed, it is placed
on large receiving trays, where it puffs
itself up quito equal to Mrs. Parvcnu
in foW-story s'Onc-front.
Marvellous how light-hearled il keeps
under tribulaion! If it only knew!
For right here is a machine called a
= "break,' having orollers % inches
long and 8 in ameter, and an appetite
for dough that Il never satisfied The
keeper OF the OVAL monster grasp5 u
nice little biscut OF Is to 100 pounds
weight aud losses it into the hopper.
| With u fierce gDwl OF pleasure, the
machine grasps S feed and deposits it
in neatly-folded blanket OF dough on
the table beneath.
With deft motion the keeper filings
it in again and again until at the sixth
inning it is called cut by the umpire, a
nice little blanket or ''form,n 6 to s
feet long, 2feet wild. aud to . inches
thick.
Stacked up on tie trays. it rapidly
RECEIVERS its spirits. Another keeper
seizes the form and ushes ii through
a smaller break, wi ch closely imi-
tates the actions and lvial snarl of its
full-grown brother. T g form energies
from its ordeal prose poem in dough.
The attenuated forr is passed over
to the tender mercies # the cutting
machine, where sets o. rollers hug it
down until thin enough to be con-
sidered beautiful. Then Il plunging
apparatus stamps out the crackers. A
little farther on a brush device de-
scends 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 thin
, board about. two feet by four, tech
nically called peel" Working with
all the automatic precision and regu-
larity of machine, he slips the pee
under the oncoming stream OF crackers,
: lifts off a strip 20 inches wide by
, 3 feet long and drops it into the
oven. Whew! 1t is hot before the
} oven, and would be worse bu, for an
, immense fan worked overhead by ma
t chinery.
T The ovens are immense brick aiTairs
heated by ton OF coal daily, ami con
tanning immense reels ten feet in liam
, cter, carrying, in manner to be al
; ways level, twelve Fans, on which the
I crackers are baked. An assi,tan
rakes Off the baked ones into chute
on goes the new lot, and descending
into the depths of cracker hados, pas
\ upward down again, and in eigh
minutes emerge purified in characte
; and fixed in form; light without Levitt
and done to a turn.
= Down the chute in headlong has
; they 90, have their tempers proper
5 cooled, and packed in boxes and ba
$ rels and shipped to those who know
It good thing when they taste it. Gu
n 100 barrels Of flour are now 400 bal
q rels of crackers. Detroit NelCS.
A clergyman, being recently abser
feou, homo on buSinpSs his little SO