The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-05
HOT BISCUITS
MUST BE GOOD
d. Wiley After Bleach
ed Flour.
KEEP COOKS IN GOOD HUMoR
Kitchen Monarchs' Lives Made
Easier.
~ Permitting Only Pure Flour to he
Used, Food Expert Prevents
Many q Domestic
squall.

Or. wiley's announcement that he
viii soon go a-warring upon Bear
Creek for miiiers who blondine their
nour to make low grade pass for the
best patent" says The Nashville Am
erican IL OF peculiar interest south of
the Ohio River, where the hot biscuit
Is at once the chief nourisher at the
feasts and a necessity at the simplest
breakfast
ally admitted. That IL to say, every
one who 10 not a vender admits It.
Or. Wiiey's efforts to make It tell have
been Herculean. Hs has created a
host Of enemies who are as creditable
20 his aims as the testimonials of the
aistnterested consumer are compliment
tary to his work. His motives have
been proven impeachable In that no
one has brought proof to impeach him.
The matter now taken up by the dis
kinguished chemist Is vital in this sec
tion OF the United States. II 1t be
true that there are miliers who bleach
low grade Of -four and sell It for
high grade they should be hanged
drawn and CHARTERED. Retaining the
services Of the cook is an enterprise
requiring diplomacy and self-sacrific-
ing endeavor. The cook-particularly
one whose complexion Is the Swallowed
livery OF the FURNISHED SUMS by ma
ture "teches" individual. She Is tenn
permentally disclined toward all ef-
forts at Christening. correction or crit
tcism. She may or may not stand
pitched. As Mr. Shaw has aptIy re-
marked. you never can tell. A cook Is
HuncPnfahlA. alm0fVa ranfa n
revolutionary. How to coddle her and
sozen her and make up to her SO that
she Will continue in the establishment
IN q problem Of increasing vexedness
10 every horskseper in the South. The
question OF what 10 the matter with
khe biscuit IL one that is likely to bob
mp and destroy the peace and serenity
~ any Sabbath morning or any OF the
cthsr six mornings Immediately follow
ing 1t. In such controversies the
hcuBekeeper, albeit expecting to be
licked, likes to be loaded. Where the
label on the fiour does not tell the
housekeeper may be led into an error
pbe IL to be avoided at all costa. II
bbseible.
There are seasons at witch no one
expects the loyalty OF the Autocrat OF
che breakfast Table not to waver. or
her industry not to fAlter, or her re-
ligious enthusiasm not to call her from
the kitchen. When catfish begiA to
bite there is, naturally, an upheavai
that runs the length ana breadth OF
her race. She Ia then likely to bolt to
her natural provider, her lord and mas.
Ter, leaving the kitchen utensils scat-
tered about here and there and "corn-
pany" waiting for q meal that does not
snaterialize. When black berries hang
In luscious clusters from every briaf
patch In every neglected pasture. and
glisten under a thatch of green where
the sunbeams slant down forest aisles.
no right minded employer in the South
holds the cook to strict moral account.
nbility, and holding her to accounta-
bility would not keep her at her post
Next In power to lure the Autoerat
from the Job Is the call to the pro-
trhcted basket meeting where there IL
social activity and gastronomic reyel.
ry hallowed by old-fashioned hymnA
when the yellow-legged chickes Is still
tender enough to tempt the most right
e0us to confuse possession with own.
ership. and when the rattlesnak0 wa
termeion has reached its. full perfes.
tion. It IL not to be expected that
when the demise of a chance acquaint-
anea is made the occasion of an espec-
tally imposing funeral the cook will re-
main at the stove and listen to tho lul.
ling music OF simmering pot and pan
IaIu6T bIlhu kO " LILO grave bAhC anu
sing q requiem for the departed.
But. intermittent though they he, the
services OF the cook are valued. The
matter OF retaining them hinges to q
degree upon the ability Of the employer
to maintain the entente cordaile with
the Autocrat and at the same time
maintain the standard Of the hot bis
cult. Without good -four 1t Is as i'm
possible TO make good biscuit OF the
kind that are made light with soda or
those that are leavened with the end Of
o rolling pin, the butt of the hatiron. a
mallet or a machine-as II is to make
a julip with withered mint and prohl-
bition whiskey.
If the hour is beyond reproach a
housekeeper whose manners are in
gratiatnG. and who Is accomplish ed
in diplomacy, may get results without
engaging and losing, the Autocrat.
Where the label does not tell there Is
confusion as to the cause II the bis
cults have "middleS' in them, like de-
posts of glycerine soap, or show a dis
heartening fairness where they should
curve. Even the mildeSt criticism IL
fraught with the danger that is incl
dental to lighting a pipe with a red
hot coal while sitting upon an open
key Of poyder One likes to be sure
one Is right before going ahead. II
there Is blondined -four in the market
10 be sure is impOssible