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their husbands, unless they understand thoroughly the science 

 of making good wheaten and brown bread. 



The number of candidates for premiums on wheaten bread 

 was nineteen ; on brown bread, six. The competitors presented 

 their recipes, full and explicit, mucli to the gratification of the 

 committee. Their theories and results were so much alike, the 

 committee had some difficulty in coming to a just conclusion 

 upon their respective merits ; yet, after discussing and thoroughly 

 putting their tastes upon trial, they came to the results indi- 

 cated in the preceding awards. The committee found ten loaves 

 deficient in weight, a fact contributors will do well to remember. 



Alden p. Osgood, Chairman. 



FRANKLIN. 



From the Report of the Committee on Bread. 



The committee on bread would report a large assortment on 

 exhibition, tlie quality of which for the most part was excellent; 

 and they would congratulate the good danios of Franklin on 

 their success in this most important branch of the culinary 

 department. 



The committee entered on their duties with diffidence, well 

 knowing that each loaf was the result of care, skill, and expe- 

 rience combined, and that each was intended and expected to 

 be the most perfect of its kind, — and that the test of its merits 

 was to be its superior excellence of sweetness and lightness. 

 They were also aware that to treat of any point so intimately 

 connected with a good housewife's reputation as the skilful 

 making of bread, must be a matter of great delicacy ; and that 

 however carefully and justly the premiums might be awarded, 

 Btill some individual would feel dissatisfied. Yet in the perform- 

 ance of the duty allotted them, the committee feel that they 

 have done it to the best of their ability ; and they would also 

 state that in making the awards, the decision was in nearly 

 every instance unanimous. 



Several entries were not examined in consequence of a failure 

 on the part of the makers to comply with a rule of the society, 

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