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Show Home-made Bread With all due respect to Minnesota which according to recent reports of tho department of agriculture based on the sale of yeast leads the other states in the production of home-made bread, is it something that Bhould be laid up against a housewife that she does not make her own bread, but buys the staff of life from the baker or grocer? There really does seem to b a popular feeling that the woman who does make her own bread is more conscientious con-scientious lhan the one who does not Still, when one consider! that the French women are notably thrifty and notably good housewivt and thy I there is almost no home bread nuik ing throughout Fiance, and that con in rural districts there bread is baked at the local bakei's, u really seem as if there might be two sides to the question. One of (he most important questions is this- Is your home-made bread better bet-ter than the baker's bread and is it more wholesome .' Bomi families acquire ac-quire a taste for bread that is decided j Ij soggy. Tho like it, hut they asree I that it does not "agree" with ihm las well as the dryer, lighter bread ! from the baker's. Home-made bread, a? things go now, lis hardly ever less expensive than bak r's bread that is, taking loat for Loaf, Frequently, however, the home- made loaf contains rather more nour-i nour-i ishment than the baker's bread. h cause it is made with milk and has ! more shortening and possibly has better bet-ter flour in its content in estima'in? ' the relative cost of the home-made bread and the bake; - broad, don't Kr-r-i get to estimate your ow n time and the additional expense in fuel, it you cook e ae this Is something to be cone I , ered. |