The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-28
THE HOME.
WATER BREAD.

Mrs. Dearborn prefers to use milk in
bread-making as it adds more nutriment,
but some people like water bread best
and even like it without shortening. The
rule is: Mix together one and one half
quarts of bread flour, and one teaspoon
full of salt; rub in one teaspoonful of but
ter until fine like meal. Soak a whole
yeast cake in one half cup of lukewarm
water and mix the liquid with the dry
mixture. Add enough more flour to
make it stiff enough to knead and when
well kneaded, place in a bowl, cover
we'll and set to rise for three hours. Cut
it down, shape into loaves, place in but
tered pans, let rise again and bake about
fifty minutes.
In kneading bread use as little extra
flour as possible. Dizziness rather than
strength counts in this process. If you
can pull the dough cut long and if it
springs back to the hand it is good.
If bread is set at night use one-fourth
of yeast cake, but the latest develop
ments in scientific ad-making point to
using more yeast and fastening the ris-
ing. Yeast is a plant that lives and dies;
by quick fermentation the plant is living
when the bread is ready to bake; by the
slower process only the dead spores are
left.
Grease the bowl in which the dough is
put to rise, then lay towel over and add
a tight-ftting cover. Let the bread rise
to double it's bulk.
A loaf is of better shape when nodded
| in two parts which,after baking come out
of the pan as a single loaf. One long
loaf will be smaller at the ends and will
not cut in nice slices.
After the dough has risen to twice its
bulk or nearly SO, in the pans, put the
bread into an oven hot enough to nearly
check the rising.
The temperature of the oven for bak
! ing bread is from400o to 1852. The inner
part of the loaf as long as it is moist can
not reach higher temperature than 212o.
Small loaves of bread, twice baked,
and toasted bread are best for invalids
because the starch is changed to dextrine
in that part which is subjected to the
| greatest heat, as in the crust.
| If the oven is too hot when bread is
| put in. hard crust is formed and the ris-
| Ing dough bursts through making irreg-
| ular sha ed loaves. Turn bread to keep
it from baking in one-sided loaves, as the
heat is not equal on all sides of an oven
LUCY STONE ON woMAN's FUTURE.
What will the sta usof women be when
the next Columbian celebration come?
By that time, whether it come in 100
or in 400 years, it to be hoped the world
will have to learn that like all other hum
an beings, women only need an open field
and fair play. In that case the world will
know the tools belong to those who can
use them" AS woman will be free
to choose their occupations and profess
sions, they will have found those that are
| suitable and best for them.
| In the house the wife and mother will
be legally entitled to share of the prop
erty acquired after marriage, that is
| to say she will have share of what her
| husband earns while her time is given
to the care of the children and to making
| the home. She does not have this right
| now. Hence the penniless wives. The
wife will have legal right to her child
| rem, which she has not now. She will
have legal right to make will of more
than half her property, which she only
has now in Massachusetts. She will have
| the right to vote and be voted for. She
will be as free as men are to achieve the
highest and best that is possible to her,
and being thus free these should be the
best reared children.
REMOVING PAINT SPOTS ON sGLAss AND
| REPAIRING BROKEN PLAsTERING.
Perhaps you had some window sash
painted this fall and found your glass
spattered with paint and if you followed
the painter at once with a clean cloth,
you had no difficulty in getting it off. If
you failed to do that, take saucer with
little whiting in it, wet the corner of a
cloth in turpentine, dip it in the whiting,
and rub the offending spots. To clean
close to the sash, wrap the cloth over
your thumb and rub.up and down with
the nail against the sash.
If you have papering to do and find
the plastering knocked off in patches,
instead of calling mason do your own
repairing thus: Buy small quantity of
plaster of paris which may be had of any
tinman at two or three cents a pound.
With a sponge or cloth wet the lath and
plaster all about the place that is to be
filled. Wet it thoroughly and you will
not be troubled with the falling out, by
and-by, of the whole lump of hardened
plaster. Having done this mix the plas-
loI Will WdlcI W dUou6 Gno consistency
of ordinary cream and add to it a cd
pinch of cooking soda; plaster of paris
sets or hardens rapidly, and this will to
some extent, retard the process. Fill
the hole very full with the wet plaster
and if when it is dry it rises above the
surface it may be scraped off with a
knife.
BIRTHDAY PUDDING.
Chocolate. Two cups of milk, two-
thirds cup of sugar, one ounce of choco-
late and two rounded tablespoonfuls OF
cornstarch.
Yelloac. Two cups of milk one-half