Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1916 — TWO WAYS OF SAVING MONEY [ARTICLE]

TWO WAYS OF SAVING MONEY

English Method of Handling Bread at the Table la Worth Consideration —Home Baking. ( In most English homes it is the custom to put the loaf of bread on the table to be cut as needed, and every family has its more or less handsomely carved bread board, matching the handle of the good English steel bread knife. Where this usage prevails, few if any odd bits of bread find their way back into the bread box or jar to be overlooked, perchance, until they are moldy themselves and have contaminated the rest of the contents. Is not this a practice worth considering, and perhaps adopting, j,n many-A-homa to flay, when the outcry at the rise in the bakers’ prices is so general and so loud? An even more effective economy is wrought whenever the housewife undertakes to- bake her own bread instead of buying the product at the great bakeries. Not only will each loaf she makes cost distinctly less than she has paid for the same weight, but if she uses a good flour, and especially entire wheat flour, the amount of nutrition will be incomparably greater than they have enjoyed before. Home baking need have no terrors for any woman of average intelligence, especially if she can afford one of the patent bread kneaders which reduce both time and effort to a very moderate amount *-