DOMESTIC AND MECHANICAL OPERATIONS

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• #1141

  To make good bread, stir it with the sun. To make good yeast, make it as near sunrise as possible.

  Northern Ohio.
• #1142

  If you wish to secure lightness, you must always stir cake and eggs a certain way, that is, the way the sun goes.

  Kittery, Me., Nashua, N. H., Eastern Massachusetts, and Southern Michigan.
• #1143

  Eggs and cake are commonly beaten and butter made by stirring sunwise.

  Newfoundland.
• #1144

  To make cake light, it must always be stirred the same way.

  Dalton, Mass., and Alabama.
• #1145

  In cooking soft custard, the stirring must be continued throughout in the direction in which it was begun; otherwise the custard will turn to whey.

  Eastern Massachusetts.
• #1146

  If, after turning the crank of a churn for a while with the sun, you change and turn the other way, it will undo all the churning you have done.

  Ferrisburgh, Vt.
• #1147

  Ice cream will not freeze rightly unless the crank is turned the right way.

  Concord, Mass.
• #1148

  In making lye soap, if you stir it backward it will turn back to lye.

  Warren Co., N. Y., and Alabama.
• #1149

  In melting sugar for taffy, stir always one way, or it will grain.

  Allston, Mass.
• #1150

  In greasing the wheels of a carriage, always begin at a certain wheel and go round in a set way.

  Peabody, Mass.