The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1912-09-27
BAKE OR BUY BREAD?
Domestic Science Dean Says Cheap
er to Make at Home.

Domestic Science Dean Says Cheap
er to Make at Home.
Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
vallis-Shall bread be baked in the
home? Mrs. Henrietta w. Calvin,
dean OF the home economies depart
ment of the Oregon Agricultural col
lege believes it is not only cheaper to
bake at home, but that the bread is
more wholesome, nourishing, and
cleaner. She has figures to support
her argument.
All intelligent women are now in
trested in discussing questions relat-
ing to industries in the home and
those which can with advantage be
taken out of the home and carried ON
in large factories or centers," says
Mrs. Calvin.
I'm regard to the production of
bread, certain factors must be consid-
cred, as the comparative cost of the
home produced article and that pur-
chased, the comparative quality and
cleanliness, and the general sanitary
conditions.
"In considering the cost of home
baked bread, it may be figured as fol-
lows:
Cost of flour for four loaves, 8
lbs, Sill
Liquid, l quart skinned milk, .O2a
Yeast, cake compressed, .O2
Salt, sugar and lard, .O1
Total cost of materials, S .16a
Materials for one loaf, .O43
"To the cost of materials must be
added the cost of fuel used in the bak-
ing. If gas is used at 81 a thousand,
lit will add &c to the cost, making
each loaf cost Age. If gasoline is
used at tic per gallon, the fuel will
cost 13c for four loaves. If the ordi-
nary coal range is used, the actual
cost of baking will vary with the use
made of other parts of the range at
the same time. since thrifty house
wife will bake while cooking other
food or while ironing. If no other use
is made of the range heat, the cost of
baking will be nearly the same as
when gasoline is used.
"Thus it is figured that the actual
cash cost of one loaf of homemade
bread will be 4sc if made with COM
pressed yeast. Homemade yeast will
save about 1-3c on each loaf, the
actual cost being about 3ac.
'"This loaf will weigh one pound. A
bakers loaf weighs about Is ounces
and costs SC. That is four pounds of
bakers bread costs Csc, and four
pounds of homemade bread about
183c, gain in money saved by home
baking of nearly &c.
'fThus we come to consider the
question of quality. The highest
grade of materials have been used in
the homemade article. It has the
highest nutritive value. If rightly
made it is sweet, well-baked, palata-
BILE and attractive. Bakers bread is
too often slightly acid, over-raised
and under baked. Under-baked bread
contributes to dyspepsia and all it's
attendant evils. So perhaps it pays
to make good homemade bread for
digestion's sake.
"Watch the bakers wagon being
loaded in the early morning hours.
The coat, the gloves that were worn
when the horses were harnessed are
still on. The bread is piled high on
the sleeves of that coat; it is handled
by those gloves. Is the bread wagon
very clean? Does the driver pile a
good deal of bread on the front box
and then pass the lines over it? In
the hot summer days do the flies rise
from the filth of the road when the
wagon stops and swarm into the
wagon? Are you certain that the
bake shop kitchen is as clean as your
own? Did you ever find something
unattractive in your bread?
perhaps it pays to bake bread at
home because of better sanitary con-
ditions. Money is not the only meas
ure of worth. The &c gain is but
part of the total GAIN
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