HUDSON S BISCUITS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 708, 6 July 1929, Page 6

HUDSON S BISCUITS

WADE BY SCIENTIFIC MACHINERY UNDER RIGID SUPERVMqk Bieouits in t-heir raaiij- forma ban become such an ordinary- and reyi% ! item in the diet of people that fe% stop to consider the enormous amount of science and skill required h;tf ort dainty little biscuits are ready to placed on their tables. All women are familiar with *** method of making biscuits In own homes, but manufacturers ]jav* hah to design machines which will grj through practically the same move, j meats as the human hands, in order (to manufacture biscuits in that will be equal or superior to home-made variety. Instead of l?.b. of flour being in a mixing, the manufacturer will use three or four two-hundred m- ÜB s sacks, and naturally the machines which, will mix and knead such a lurtc quantity must be very scientifk’alh constructed to obtain the proper result. After the ingredients are thoroughly embodied in huge mixers, the dough must be rolled out. but instead of using a rolling pin a machine called j a brake is used, which goes through ! the same motions as a rolling pdu The dough, when rolled out. i* pu- ! into a machine called an embower 1 which continues the rolling out proj cess and at the; same time passes tht* dough in a continuous thin sheet under massive dies, which stamp the biscuits into rounds, squares and oblongs, and automatically delivers them on to a baking-sheet. These bakingsheets are then fed into an oven, which is fitted with travelling bands which convey the trays slowly through 6(t feet of oven. The greatest care and skill is necessary to ensure that when the biscuits emerge from the oven they will be perfectly baked. In the Hudson biscuit factory the ovens used are heated by gas. aild to ensure the correct temperature fc all sections of the oven, scores of burners are used so that the heat every part of the oven is in perfect control. The biscuits, when baked, must b* very carefully packed in order that none but the most perfect are out for consumption.