BREAD AND CAKE MAKING..

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 6 April 1916, Page 2

BREAD AND CAKE MAKING..

BY LOCAL MACHINERY

OUR special reporter paid Ramsey's Champion Bakery a visit on Monday (by invitation) to inspect the bread and cake machinery recently installed, when the Melvin V/% h.p. benzine engine was immediately started. Like most other new inventions, it is all very simple—" when you know how to do it."—The sponge and cake mixer, like the dough machine, is simplicity itself. You just put all the necessary ingredients to be mixed, into what looks like an ordinary cream can, put the belt on and let her run for about ten minutes; and turn out the mixture into various shapes and tins for the oven, which, by hand, would have taken at least an hour to beat a_bout, and indeed we may say, mess about," which is all avoided, thus scrupulous cleanliness is assured. The same may be said of the large and massive steel dough-mixer, which will turn out enough material in half-an-hour to make 400 2-lb loaves. The inside of the mixer contains a large steel skeleton, revolving corkscrew apparatus, and is contrived to turn either way. This machine is by Melvin also, while the cake-mixer is a Moton, and with the shalting and other gear cost little under £250. Mr Ramsey deserves great credit for his enterprise, and the Government Inspector the other day was unstinted in his praise and approval of the manner in which the perfectly hygenic manufacture of bread and cakes is now: carried on.