The Lamar register., 1915-02-10
As Mother Never Made Them


for others. A housewife is never ex-
act about cooking.
She cannot be exact. She has not
the necessary tools. To her, warm"
water is water about so warm, and
hot" water is water about so hot. She
never measures degrees of heat. The
warm" water that she uses today to
make bread may differ by several de-
grees from the warm" water that she
used last week. Yet the chemistry of
good bread requires that there shall
be no variation, that every process in
its making shall be right-today, to-
morrow and forever.
Men who bake for millions observe
these requirements every hour of the
day of every year. The manner in
which soda biscuit are made will both
prove and illustrate this. The -four is
weighed out; certain number of
pounds, no more and no less, and plac-
ed in a huge steel receptacle. The re-
quired amount of soda is weighed out
and added. The receptacle, which
holds several barrels Of -four and is
mounted upon wheels, is then rolled
up TO a group of three water-faucets.
The temperature of the water in each
faucet is measured by an indicator
that stares the baker in the face. An
automatic device permits precisely so
much water of each temperature to
flow into the great biscuit pan. Every
hour and every day this device per-
mits only so much water of three diff
ferent and exact temperatures to flow
into u receptacle containing a certain
number of pounds of -four. In this
respect there is not particle of var
iation from one years end to another
Then the biscuit dough is mixed for
q certain number of minutes by ma
chinery which makes a certain num-
Der of revolutions each minute. The
mixing done, the great receptacles are
then wheeled into a room to stand
while the dough rises. In this room,
at given moment, fifty patches of
biscuit dough, each batch amounting
perhaps to four barrels, may be seen
standing to wait the process of ris-
ing.
But do these men put dough away
to rise as women put it away in their
homes? They do not. Women con-
tent themselves with looking for a
warm place" In summer almost
any place is warm enough all night.
In winter perhaps no place is warm
enough. That is why some women
can make good bread in summer and
not at any other time. Their bread
is the beneficiary or the victim Of en-
vironment, as the case may be. But
the men who make soda biscuit for
millions of Americans are not at the
mercy Of the seasons. There is but
one season known in the room in
which they place bicuit dough to
rise. Their constant conditions are
maintained by adding hot air or cool
air, dry air or moist, as occasion re-
quires.
The result is that the men who make
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have the griefs that come to women.
Women who do their own baking are
puzzled half the time as to why their
bread docs not come out right" The
biscuit men never have to ask this
question. Their biscuit never come
out wrong. And that is because the
conditions of manufacture are al
ways the same, because never for q
moment is there a cessation of exact
ness.
The dough, after it has risen, is
again placed in machines. These ma
chimes, incidentally, are designed to
be, as nearly as possible, steel repro
auctions of old ladies. This great
tribute modern scientific man pays to
woman. Every operation, from now
until baking time, is designed to be
an approximation of woman's meth
DDS. The dough is rolled out, flour
is sprinkled upon it, the intermediate
process is performed with the same
rigid exactness, then the flour is dust
ed off. Even the cutting out of The
biscuit is but the methods of women
worked out by n machine. 1t is only
when the biscuit are ready TO place in