The art of bread making has been handed down from one generation to another for
centuries, with gradual improvement until
at the present time we have mastered what we consider
a perfect method. The aboriginal savages did not use
a leavening agent by which bread can be made light.
They...
Throughout history, the supply of foods necessary to
bodily sustenance has been an engrossing if not altogether
profitable occupation. Exception may be taken to the
use of this term, but when we consider the number of laboring families whose first and greatest aim is to meet the
call of the...
The daily preparation of meals is an important end
extremely interesting home problem, a fact which is not
wholly appreciated by the average house keeper. The
importance of the provision of food. is wall. shown in the
words of Mrs. Ellen H. Richards, "The prosperity of a
nation depends upon...
All living things require food but none make use of
such a variety of foods as does the human race. Many
half civilized people of the earth live on very coarse
materials. The American Indians, for example, do not use
a great variety of foods such as we do, but...
The women of the past ages have made little progress
in literature, and many are those who have ascribed
it to lack of talent which is evident in the gentler sex;
but more agree with Eliza V. Farnham when she says, "I
will yield to none in the grateful admiration...
This course of study has been planned for the
seventh and eighth grades in Oregon schools. One period
each week, or ninety minutes or more, is needed.
The study or cookery should be closely correlated with
the other school branches. High ideals of workmanship,
neatness, accuracy and skill should be...
The experiment under discussion was carried out in
Corvallis, Oregon, during the week beginning Sunday
April 3, 1910 with a family of six persons, consisting of
a mother, who acts as a housekeeper and housemother; a
young man, an instructor in the college; two boys, one in
college and the...
"The boiling and spinning of sugar and the making of candies are classed among the 'frills of cookery'. But though everyone cannot hope to master all the intricacies of this branch of the culinary art, there is no reason why young people should not become, with advantages to themselves, expert...
Before discussing the American press of the day,
with its freedom and power, a brief historical review
of the development of journalism in its several functions
seems in place.