Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-18
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.
BY Laura A. kirkman.
DO YOU DO INTENSIVE" BAKING?

The woman who has a gas, electric
oil or alcohol stove should do intensive
baking-that is, should use her oven tc
the utmost OF its capacity when she uses il
at all-should bake as many things in it as
possible while the power is on. Indeed ever
the woman who has a coal stove should
follow this rule: for although her oven is
always heated, nevertheless draughts must
be turned on in order to get very hot oven
| for baking and this means that extra fuel
| must be used.
Then, too, intensive baking saves the
| housekeepers time. Instead of puttering
about the kitchen three or four days out OF
the week TO prepare puddings or other des-
serts Tor dinner, a housekeeper should
| bake enough things on Wednesday and
! Saturday mornings to stretch over all the
| other days of the week.
| On Wednesday morning, for instance,
| the woman who has Ave or six in the fanny
| should plan somewhat in this way
She might bake chocolate layer cake for
| Wednesday noon luncheon (uslng the
other half of the cake for Thursday .
luncheon dessert; a peach betty for des-
| sert at dinner Wednesday evening, a
chocolate pie for dinner Thursday night !;
cup cakes for lunch on Friday; aud a
lemon pie for Fridays dinner dessert In
this way she will have baked two pies, one
layer cake, cup cakes, a betty and SIX
loaves OF bread provided she set her
bread the night before) In one morning
On Saturday morning she will follow very
much the SAME plan Il will take up the
subject of Saturdays baking next Friday
She should manage as follows: Before
or just after breakfast she should put her
risen bread IN pans TO rise again and should
then turn her attention to her oven, get
ting it as hot as possible. As the bread
and the peach betty require slower oven
than the other things, she should bake the
two pies, the layer cake, and the cup cakes
before the bread doubles itself in bulk
which will be somewhere around 1890 or
III o 'clock-and while the oven is hot, and
should then bring her oven temperature
down to a lower degree of heat.
This is the plan | follow: and although
the task may seem a formidable one to
the woman who has gotten into the habit
OF baking only one or two things on We'd
nesday and Saturday mornings and max
ing her desserts on other days as needed,
still it can be done, for have done il and
j continue TO do it week in, week out. The
recipes | use will be printed in this column
tomorrow and Saturday in conjunction
with lun cheon and dinner menus.
In baking as many things as this in
few hours, the housekeeper must not at
tempt to follow the old rule of washing
up as you go" She should lay out every
thing that will be needed before she starts |
to bake SO that.she will not have to waste |
time flying around looking for something |
that has perhaps been mislaid. Two or |
three cups, two or three teaspoons, two |
or three tablespoons and several small |
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be laid out. A pan filled with water stand |
ing near by will be found great step
saver running to the sink is a temptation
when a mere dip into water will wash GER I
tain things) and dish towel fastened to
the housekeeper's apron belt, on one side,
is also an invaluable help.
Tomorrow Satisfying Home Dinner,
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