BREAD, BUTTEK, CHEESE, &o, '9 



BREAD, BUTTER, CHEESE, &C. 



The Committee on Bread, Butter, Cheese, Honey and 

 Pickles, report as follows : 



No Committee has a more important duty to fulfill 

 than the one which has to decide upon the above 

 named articles, they most of them, being the most 

 important ones which enter into the consumption of 

 daily living. And the contributors were very fortu- 

 nate in having for their inspectors, gentlemen and 

 ladies, so w^ell qualified to judge upon their productions, 

 so excellent, and so near perfection as most of them 

 were. Bread, the first of household productions, is 

 eminently the stafi' of life, and it is an old maxim, that 

 the maiden who cannot make a good loaf, is not fit to 

 become the head of a family, although so many do 

 assume it w^ithout this necessary and very important 

 qualification. Doubtless this happens in most cases, 

 because there is no examination before entering upofl 

 the all important duties of life. The bread which w^as 

 submitted to our inspection, under the rules of the 

 Society, was made by quite young misses, most of 

 them still under the tuition of their mothers, and of 

 course still making progress in the important art. 

 And your Committee would most earnestly recommend 

 them to make themselves as near perfect, in this most 

 important accomplishment, as they can. There was a 

 great variety of the different kinds of bread, and it 

 was very creditable to the makers, although it was not 

 all pronounced perfect. Some of it which looked very 

 nice, could not be examined because it was not suf- 

 ciently cold, it being still warm from the oven, con- 

 consequently not coming within the rules. 



