The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-06-15
BAKING INTERESTS
School STUDENTS
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS FORM CLUB
AND ENTER INTO STATE
WIDE COMPETITION
splendid RESULTS ATTAINED
ESTHER BORGMANN AND LUCY
PANGBURN ELIGIBLE TO TRY
FOR STATE HONORS


one of the most profitable to its mem
bers-was the Gem Bread Baking
Club, composed of eleven young wom-
en- who banded to take advantage of
special extension work fostered and
encouraged by the University of Min
nesota and aided by county and COM
munity educational forces.
AS the name of the organization
would indicate, the object of its men,
bers was to learn to make bread. In
ducements to produce good results
were offered in the nature of local,
county and state prizes to the winners
of various competitions and, when the
last returns are in, no surprise should
be exhibited if the Sank Centre girls
stand high in the running, judging
from their scores returned in the To-
cal contest.
Membership in the club was not
compulsory and either of two divi-
sions could be entered: Class A, for
girls who had training in domestic
science; Class B, for girls who had
no special training.
Miss Ora Conley, teacher of domes-
tic science in the high school, was the
club instructor. In her Class A she
had as students Lillian Schaub, who
was also president of the club; Bertha
MacDermond, secretary and treasur-
er; Fern Dobbs, Lois Reed, Gladys
Wolfe, Genevieve Beck, Mildred Calk-
ins and Esther Borgmann. Class B
members were Lucy Pangburn, Elva
Luhde and Nina Kraft.
Under the terms of the local con-
test each girl baked bread six times,
either at school or at home, bringing
a loaf to school at each baking to be
judged. Each girl also was required
to write story of not more than 500
words on GLOW I learned to Bake My
Loaf of Bread"
j The prize contest was held on June
1 with Mrs. M. D. Aygarn as judge,
Esther Bergman being proclaimed
the best bread maker of Class A and
Lucy Pangburn of Class B. Each re-
ceived a cash prize of $1.50. Lillian
Schaub was third in the awards, re-
ceiving a prize Of IS cents; Fern
Dobbs, fourth, 65 cents; Mildred Calk-
ms, fifth, so cents; Lois Reed, sixth,
so cents. Genevieve Beck was award
ed a special prize for her splendid pa
per. ~-'--r-
Under the terms of the county and
state contest, the Misses Borgmann
and Pangburn will go to St. Cloud on
June FL to compete with the winners
in their classes from all other high
schools in Stearns county. The coun-
ty winners will in turn go to st. Paul
during state fair week at the expense
of the University of Minnesota and
there compete for the state champion
ship and also scholarships valued at
$1OO in each class.
In the local contest Sank Centre
Gem flour was specified as the flour
to be used and the prizes given were
hung up by the Central Minnesota
Power & Milling Co. Following is
the paper by Genevieve Beck which
won her special reward for merit:
How l Learned to Make My Loaf Of
Bread.
(Genevieve Beck.)
About one week ago, 1 was mass
of very little tiny plants or cells call
ed yeast plants. l was caught and
mixed with a whole lot of starch
pressed into a cake with some pretty
silver paper about me. This all hap
pened in Minneapolis. My masters
sent me with lot more little flat
cakes to grocery store in Sank Cen
tire. I waited there two whole days
and was just beginning to wonder if
this was all had to do for the rest
of my life, when into the store walk
ed girl who called for package of
compressed yeast. I pushed myself
to the front and the clerk took me.
This girl carried me to the Domes-
tic Scinece Laboratory in the High
school. I soon learned, by being very
observant, that was to be made into
loaf of bread for the contest. My
new mistress cut me into two equal
parts. Each part was to make loaf.
She put one part into cup with two
tablespoons of water. In an earthen-
ware bowl, she put two teaspoons of
sugar, one teaspoon salt and one tea
spoon butter. She heated one cup of
water and poured it over the butter,
sugar and salt to melt the butter and
dissolve the sugar and salt. When the
water had cooled to 95 degrees F..
she put me in and added enough Gem
flour to make thin batter. She took
a large wooden spoon and beat me
Just as fast as she could for ten min
.utes until I was full Of bubbles. Their
all the rest of the three and one-hal1
,cups of sifted flour was put in ano
her hands mixed the flour into me un
til could hold no more. Those hands
punched and poked me for ten or fif
teen minutes until my sides ached ant
I know her arms did for she stopped
70 shake up her arms every few min