El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-04-30
Bread and Bread Making
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT DESIRES TO
MERELY GIVE BREAD BUILDING FACTS

VIE press dispatches from Wash
lngton a few days ago annouIc-
ed that the department of ag-
riculture had published, under the seal
of its official approval, a treatise on
Bread and Bread Making. which con-
troveIted the popular notion that hot
bread is unWhOlesome. Senator Bob
Taylor of Tennessee is credited with
originating the saying that the Mason
and Dixon line marks the boundary
between the land of hot biscuit and
pure delight on the one side and cold
light bread" and dyspepsia on the
other Certainly it is true that New
Englanders have gazed in horror
when they contemplated the southern
diet of hot bread and fried meat three
times day They would not admit
BOB" 'raylor's classification OF hot BIS
cult with pure delight. and they
might not know that bread, simple
bread, is known only as light bread"
in the south.
southerners Have Opinions.
Southerners are convinced that all
northerners are afflicted with physi-
cal and mental dyspepsia superfnduced
oy the Incorporate consumption of cold
light bread" thrice daily. and of pie
al breakfast. The Mason and Dixon
line was run before the American peo-
therefore the division does not obtain
west of the Father of Waters On the
whole, perhaps. hot biscuit and the
frying pan have had the best of it in
the west.
In view of this sectional warfare it
IS not the least significant fact con-
corning the recent official approval Of
hot bread. that the author OF the par
ticular departmental bulletin contain
"a 7afo <1% k<-
rolls was written by Miss HoIen At
water of Connecticut This removes the
last cause for bitterness and strife
between the sections and the Mason
and Dixon line may now be blotted
from the memory of man
AS a matter of fact. the different opin-
ions held in the south and north as
to the comparative merits of bread hot
and bread cold are based, in the NAH
upon ignorance Anyone who has trav-
eled knows that in all but the excep-
tional instance. cold bread in the south
IS an abomination because the southern
cooks do not know how TO make it,
while hot bread in the north is an I'M
thinkable dissertation to him who has
tasted OF the best products of a negro
kitchen Notable exceptions are OF
course, the parker house rolls which
are eaten hot III the north. and the salt
rising bread which is eaten cold in the
south But on the whole It is unques-
true that the average hot bis
cult which boasts of pedigree reaching
back 10 the Mayflower is utterly IN
fit for human consumption; while
loaf of light bread" descended from
the Cavaliers OF Virginia IS a sad and
hopeless apology for food Then the
north does not now how to make corn
bread. and therefore it does not like
,ornbread.
Dependent Upon Custom.
The marked sectional divergence of
-iews' upon the matter of making bread
had its origin in that pc
,uliar institution" which was response !
Die for a similar divergence of view /
lpon all questions. The northern
housewife, who did her own work. was !
Inclined to reverence the Institution of !
| weekly bake day because of the saw
ng Of time and toll Ian the south !
where servants were plentiful the pal |
lie alone was consulted and the decis- |
on was made in favor of bread which (.
came to the table smoking hot from the |
1ven- AS cornbread must be eaten hot !
f it is eaten at all, and it entails |
great amount Of care when It is made |
ii became a more popular |
'ood in that section of the country
where servants were always 10 be had. !
Warm Bread Easily Masticated.
Miss Atwater carefully avoids becom- |
She says simply: THE fact that bread |
he matter. New bread. especially that