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...Common Man. "America's No. 1 Curmudgeon, or Sour Puss" was born (1874) in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children. "I was raised to dust and sweep and wash dishes and knead dough and baste the beef and turn (and burn) the toast and flip flapjacks. ... I was pinch-hit nursemaid, wood chopper, fire builder and tender, chicken executioner-more useful than ornamental...
...difficult and lowly circumstances which had made her proper. In the U.S. version "we have enshrined, not the earnest search of the Prince, which is a positive force in the story, but the girl's reward. . . . There is, the American legend, tells [her] a good-looking man with dough, who will put an end to the onerous tedium of making a living. . . . The idea women have that life is marshmallows which will come as a gift . . . has defeated half the husbands in America. ... It is as responsible for the absurdity of keeping up with the Joneses as the bare...
...another corner of the room, smaller mixers five and six feet high whirl wire beaters the size of a man's head in bowls of frosting or small lots of dough. All about the room stand frames filled with trays of bread, pies, and a thousand different kinds of cookies...
Once that the dough for bread has been prepared it is removed to the "profing room" where it sits in great tubs to rise. Steam jets keep the air of the room warm and moist for the difficult and delicate process. Leaves are prepared for the even either by rough shaping as in the case of French bread or by placing in pans; rolls are cut to size on a special machine...
...Dames & Dough...