The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-13
Hoover Lays Down Strict Rec
ipe for Breadmaking.
Must Take Out Government Lii
cense by December 10.
TOLERATE NO UNFAIR PRACTICE
Mus i Not Hoard Food COmmod-
titles To Increase Prices.
Hangs $1,000 Fine and 2 Years
Gin Prison Over Bakers.

V5ashingtOn Nov. 13.-General
r,,IsS and regulations governing all
licenses. manufacturing bakery prod
,ctessunder President wilson's procla-
rnatson recurring every baker, except
those using less than ten barrels OF
flour and meal monthly. to take out
a government license by December ~
Were announced by the food admhls-
alton TODAY Both proclamation ana
ree.Is1ations seek to standardize bread
mailing, eliminate waste and contus-
ing sizes. force prices down and other
wise help consumers. Even notes.
clubs and other public eating places
that serve bakery products OF theiE
owrismaking must take out licenses II
then. exceed the ten barrel limit, ana
penalty for doing business without IL
cense is $4,000 fine, two years i'm
prisanment or both.
Bakery licenses must keep products
moving to the consumer in as direct
linegas practicable and without unrea-
sonable delay. Re-sales within the
same trade without reasonable just1-
fication. especially if tending to result
in a higher market price to the re
taller or consumer, will be dealt with
as an unfair practice"
Things He Must Not Do.
These things. licensees must not do:
Buzz contract for, sell, store or other
wise handle or deal in any food COM
modities to unTeasonably increase the
price or restrict supply or attempt to
locally or generally monopolize com
modities; destroy any bakery prod
uctst waste or wilfully permit deter
iore4ion of products; accept returns of
bread or other bakery products; make
cash payments or allow credit to any
retailer for any unsold bread or other
bakery products" or exchange any of
them for other break or bakery prod
uctS 'Whoch he has sold"
Bread mast be made and sold only
in The specified weights or multi
pies, of sixteen ounce units which
must not run over II ounces, and "a
ounce units which much not run over
rs " ounces, in both cases net weights,
unWrapped, twelve hours after baking.
Each unit of twin or multiple lOaves
must conform to these weight require
NESTS Rolls must be in units weigh
ing from one to three ounces, but no
rolls manufactured or offered for sale
shall weigh, unwrapped, twelve hours
after baking, less than one ounce or
more than three ounces. These stand
ards are to be determined by averag-
ing weights Of rs loaves or five dozen
rolls of each unit.
Restrict Lard, Sugar and MIX
In mixing dough for bread or rolls
on the unit basis of 1876 pounds of
any flour meal or mixture, bakers
must not use more than three pounds
oA cane OF. peeI sugar. OF IN lleu OIL
them 3 y pounds of corn sugar; nor
more than six pounds of fresh milk
from which butter fats have been ex-
trdcted; nor use any shortening ex-
cept not exceeding two pounds of
compounds containing not more than
5 per cent of animal fats or in
stead, not more than two pounds of
vegetable fats Where sweetened con-
densed milk is used, its added sugar
contents shall be deducted from the
net sugar allowed. Sugars or fats
are not to be added to the dough
during the baking process or to the
bread or rolls, when baked.
Food Administrator Hoover recon-
mended to all wholesale bakers today
to establish as their wholesale prices
those at which they will offer their
products for sale in lots of Is pounds
or more, unwrapped for cash at the
bakery door, subject to fair addition
al charges for wrapping and deliver
ing when the bakers perform those
services.
Must Report Prices.
Licensees are asked to report these
wholesale prices to the federal food