Next in importance to good flour, is good yeast or emptings. Flour should always be sifted and put in a warm place, to get thoroughly warmed and dried before the sponge is made. Bread is much better and more tender wet with milk than with water, and requires less flour and less kneading. Some prefer a little shorten- ing. In making good bread, great care must be taken of it, mixing, kneading and baking all require the closest attention. If milk is used, it must be new, and in warm weather it must be scalded, and then cooled until but luke- warm ; the batter must be of the right temperature when the yeast is put in ; if hot, . the life of the yeast is destroyed ; if cold, much time is lost in rising. If you cannot use all milk for wetting the flour, a part milk is better than all water. If liked, put half a cup of shortening melted in the wetting, to one large loaf, or added to the sponge after it has risen the first time. One cup of yeast to every two loaves. The dough should be kept warm from the time it is mixed until it is baked, it will rise quicker and be better for it. Mix the sponge stiff, if set at night in cold weather, put it where it will keep warm, otherwise you had better wait until morning — in summer the natural heat is sufficient. R. T. ACRES H. E. P. WILLIAMS Telephone 423 SAN FXANCSSCO Blank Book Manufacturers Book Binders Lithographers, Printers ai?d Boupd IT) tl?e latest elotl? bipdir^s THE BANCROFT COMPANY PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS 721 MARKET ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. PRINTERS, LITHOGRAPHERS, ENGRAVERS 49 FIRST STREET OICE EXTRA STARR&CO I6 CALIFORNIA ST FRANCISCO. This Brand of Flour Leads all others ! Try It;! OAKLAND DEPOT: FOOT OF FRANKLIN STREET. THE VIENNA MODEL BAKERY 205 Kearny Street R. BECK, - Proprietor San Francisco, Aiig. 26, 1891 THE CENTRAL MILLING CO. Gentlemen: We cheerfully recommend yo^lr "DRIFTED SNOW Flour as being the whitest and best family flour we have ever used. Yours, R. BECK & CO. Vienna Model Bakery MOST POPULAR UNITED STATES DUFF GORDON SHERRY THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY awarded their last contract for Sherry to agents of MESSRS. DUFF, GORDON X GO. In preference to all other Competitors. Charles Meinecke& Co,, 314 Sacramento St., San Francisco Sole /I<$ei)t5 pacific Qoast BREAD. 141 If the sponge is set at night and kept warm it will be light in the morning and should be kneaded at once in one large lump, then let it stand to rise again, when light mould into loaves. The more bread is kneaded before forming the loaves, the better it will be, but it should be kept soft as possible, using as little flour as you can ; when the loaves are formed put them into well-buttered pans or in rows in one large pan. Set the pans in a warm place for an hour, with a cloth thrown over them to exclude the air and dust ; then bake in an oven not hotter than you can hold your hand in while counting thirty ; keep a uniform fire. When baked, which will require about an hour, let it stand in the pans a few moments, then turn out and place in an upright or stand- ing position. Do not cover the bread up in cloths ; it spoils the taste ; turn the pans, and let i-t rest against them without covering.

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Next in importance to good flour, is good yeast or emptings. Flour should always be sifted and put in a warm place, to get thoroughly warmed and dried before the sponge is made. Bread is much better and more tender wet with milk than with water, and requires less flour and less kneading. Some prefer a little shortening. In making good bread, great care must be taken of it, mixing, kneading and baking all require the closest attention. If milk is used, it must be new, and in warm weather it must be scalded, and then cooled until but lukewarm ; the batter must be of the right temperature when the yeast is put in ; if hot, . the life of the yeast is destroyed ; if cold, much time is lost in rising. If you cannot use all milk for wetting the flour, a part milk is better than all water. If liked, put half a cup of shortening melted in the wetting, to one large loaf, or added to the sponge after it has risen the first time. One cup of yeast to every two loaves. The dough should be kept warm from the time it is mixed until it is baked, it will rise quicker and be better for it. Mix the sponge stiff, if set at night in cold weather, put it where it will keep warm, otherwise you had better wait until morning — in summer the natural heat is sufficient. R. T. ACRES H. E. P. WILLIAMS Telephone SAN FXANCSSCO Blank Book Manufacturers Book Binders Lithographers, Printers ai?d Boupd IT) tl?e latest elotl? bipdir^s THE BANCROFT COMPANY PUBLISHERS, BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS 721 MARKET ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. PRINTERS, LITHOGRAPHERS, ENGRAVERS 49 FIRST STREET OICE EXTRA STARR&CO I6 CALIFORNIA ST FRANCISCO. This Brand of Flour Leads all others ! Try It;! OAKLAND DEPOT: FOOT OF FRANKLIN STREET. THE VIENNA MODEL BAKERY 205 Kearny Street R. BECK, - Proprietor San Francisco, Aiig. 26, 1891 THE CENTRAL MILLING CO. Gentlemen: We cheerfully recommend your "DRIFTED SNOW Flour as being the whitest and best family flour we have ever used. Yours, R. BECK & CO. Vienna Model Bakery MOST POPULAR UNITED STATES DUFF GORDON SHERRY THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY awarded their last contract for Sherry to agents of MESSRS. DUFF, GORDON X GO. In preference to all other Competitors. Charles Meinecke& Co,, 314 Sacramento St., San Francisco Sole /I<$ei)t5 pacific Qoast If the sponge is set at night and kept warm it will be light in the morning and should be kneaded at once in one large lump, then let it stand to rise again, when light mould into loaves. The more bread is kneaded before forming the loaves, the better it will be, but it should be kept soft as possible, using as little flour as you can ; when the loaves are formed put them into well-buttered pans or in rows in one large pan. Set the pans in a warm place for an hour, with a cloth thrown over them to exclude the air and dust ; then bake in an oven not hotter than you can hold your hand in while counting thirty ; keep a uniform fire. When baked, which will require about an hour, let it stand in the pans a few moments, then turn out and place in an upright or standing position. Do not cover the bread up in cloths ; it spoils the taste ; turn the pans, and let i-t rest against them without covering.

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