The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-20
URGES WOMEN TO
QUIT BAKING BREAD
Mrs. William SEVERN Claims One
to Three Ounces of Dough Is
Wasted in Every Home Bak-
ing.

Chicago, Nov. 18.-Mrs. william
SEVERN, chairman of the national ad-
visory council of the Women's AS
ISOLATION of Commerce of the United
States, in an address at a meeting of
the association, held here. told many
pertinent facts about the necessity
for food conservation in every home in
America. Not only did Mrs SEVERN
emphatically urge the conserving of
food, but she also showed to almost
the exact figure, how many pounds OF
meat, bread, butter, milk, etc. would
be saved in year, II In each home in
the United States food conservation
was practiced on a small scale. She
said:
We are asked to observe wheatless
days. Let us carry it further. Let us
discover the real wastes of wheat in
our homes. The home baked loaf of
bread time hallowed tho it be, Is our
worst offender. The women in France
no longer bake their own bread. We
must adopt similar measures here.
One to three ounces of dough
wheat, in other words-is wasted in
every home baking. The dough on
your fingers that you or your maid
wash off in the sink, the dough that
ciings to the bread board, the flour
that spills while you are kneading. are
wastes you cannot prevent. The only
recourse is to stop baking bread at
home.
The RED Cross and other war relief
organizations are begging for your
help. You can't respond when you
are chained to the kitchen, nervous
over whether your dough is rising
properly and then watching II in the
oven. 1t takes five hours to produce
two loaves of bread in your kitchen
and then perhaps it is a soggy, unpal-
atable mess, indigestib1e and really
waste. Home baking is a triple waste
first of wheat-second of time
third of your family digestion.
Buy Bakers Bread.
Hundreds of thousands of barrels Of
flour can be saved by housewives IL
they will buy bakers bread. In up
to-date bake shops the correct tenn
perature is maintained while the
dough is rising. In home kitchens
cold draft enters, and the dough falls
Then IL is case of Humpty Dumpty
Nothing can save that batch of dough
from becoming soggy bread.
Bake shops, by modern contrivances
avoid wastes of dough. They can pro-
duce more bread per barrel of flour
than housewives can. And bakers
bread is light. It toasts Home made
bread won't. The crusts of bakers
bread can be easily dried, rolled and
used. Your home made crusts are too
heavy for this.
home baking. Then they can begin
today to save wheat Wheat will help
win the war. Now is the time to act.
The government is supervising the
bake shops. Each bake shop is to be
licensed. But don't wait for the gov
eminent to point out the wastes of
home baking. Let us resolve now to
save those thousands upon thousands
of barrels of flour we are literally
washing down our sinks.
of home baking. have baked bread.
rolls. pies. cakes by the thousands
I've taught scores OF maids and girls
to do the same, but today in my home,
home baking is barred. ] consider
this action to be in accordance with
the spirit Of my Hoover pledge. And
If every woman in this country will
do likewise. I venture to say that
1000. 900 barrels of flour will be an
nually saved for use by our allies.