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On Heating a Bake Oven

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Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. II, no. 1, January 1954 The following passage is taken from Chapter 5, Article 3 of Le Parfait Boulanger (The Perfect Baker), by M. Parmentier, Paris, I778, and has been translated from the original French by Jean and Gene Sheldon of Williamsburg, Virginia. The moment for firing the oven is …

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Paper Barrels

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Excerpted from The Chronicle, Vol. X no. 1, March 1957 by Laurence A. Johnson The pictures used in this article are from Mr. W. H. Murphy’s catalogue, entitled “CATALOGUE con­taining cuts of the Special Barrel Machinery used in the Murphy Patent Paper Barrel, office: 65 South Salina Street, Syracuse, N. Y.” This interesting glimpse into …

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