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meal and rye flour and moisten witli sweet milk to make a stiff bat- 

 ter enough for one good sized loaf, mix very thoroughly. Let it rise 

 sufficiently, and then put into the oven and bake two hours." (A 

 very good receipt we should think.) 



I must not forget to mention the very fine loaf made by a girl 

 eleven years old, and for which we awarded the Society's premium. 

 It was nearl}^ equal, in point of excellence, to any loaf on exhibition. 

 We predict that the young Miss, will not only make an excellent 

 cook, but one of these days a profitable and thriving housewife. 

 We give her receipt for making bread. " One quart flour, one pint 

 new milk, one cup hop yeast, mix v/ell together and set it in a warm 

 place to rise, when hght mould and knead well and put into a pan. 

 Let it rise half an hour, then bake three quarters of an hour." (This 

 is the most perfect statement of any. ) 



We cannot close this article without urging upon our young ladies 

 the great importance of becoming expert bread makers. No young 

 wife is ever so mortified as, when she maJtes her first attempt to 

 make bread, a failure. It is a poor beginning to place before a young 

 husband as a first effort in cookery, a loaf of bread that he might 

 weU use to top out his stone wall with, it is so hard and soggy. He 

 would begin to think he had caught a Tartar or rather that he had 

 not caught Tartar enough. No young lady should ever dare to 

 marry until she can make a first rate loaf of bread, if she does there 

 will be a family quarrel before the honey moon is over, we venture 

 to predict. Far wiser than the dog law would be that Legislative 

 enactment, that no girl should be permitted to get married imtil she 

 could make good bread. 



Your committee awarded the premiums as follows : 

 Wheat bread, first premium to JiCrs. C. B. Hubbard, $2.00; 2nd to 



Sophia Wood, $1.00 ; 3d to L. V. B. Cook, 50c.; J. Wheaton, 



50 cents. 

 Rye Bread, first premiiim to Mrs. E. P. DiUdnson, $2.00; Mrs. C. 



.B. Hubbard, $1.00; I^Irs. S. W. BoutweU, 50c. 

 Graham bread, first premiura to Mrs. S. W. Boutwell, $2.00 ; Mrs. 



C. B. Hubbard, $1.00; G. L. Cooley, 50c. 

 Rye and Indian bread, Mi-s. S. W. Boutwell, $2.00; Mrs. Wilson, 



Belchertown, $1.00. 

 Bread made by a girl under 14 years old, to Miss A. E. Kentfield, 



Hadley, $1.00. 



Respectfully submitted, 



DAVID RICE, Chairman. 



