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Show _ By MERLE SHUPE One of the biggest bread-mak- ing industriesin Weber County ground to a halt this past week, ‘but the shutdown had nothing | i bes do with the current Teamster strike against local bakeries. ‘The stoppage “= and it’s only ‘temporary — was the natural re‘sult of summer vacations for the county’s thousands of youngsters ‘who eat their noonday lunches at school where home-made bread and feather-light rolls are - a top attraction on the menu. It’s a mammoth undertaking. _ Most of the schools bake bread | three times a week and a total of about: white and 1 1,800 hole |, wheat loaves are popped into the | ovens by the 80 cooks who keep things rolling in the 18 schools, | when classes are in full session. On alternate days the ovens | are stuffed with something like 26,000 or 28,000 delectable ‘hot rolls which are so popular with | students that they are continually wheedling an extra one or two for their lunch. . And as if that weren’t enough to keep the big hot, the cooks ovens scorching manage to whip up thousands of cupcake S, cookies, cream puffs, short cakes, apple and mince squares, and dozens of huge sheet cakes. These’! help to take care of the sweet | | tooth of about 7,000 students and | School; personnel jnoon meals who take their) at the school cafe- | teria every day. eH _ SPECIAL TREATS — ~ For special trea they manage | | to include raisin,ts ban ana nut, rh te pineapple nut and date breads, cinnamon and parker house rolls, corn and whole wheat muffins, barbecue and hot dog buns, gin- gerbread and doughnuts. The fragrant smells *floating / Out of the kitchens any sehool > =| day are enough to set any mouth at Watering.) ("6 Aue | | All this baking is in addition | -|to the regular lunches cooked jand unit served daily. It keeps cooks hopping from 7:30 in the morning until into the afternoons. The bread baking. project the! about well ‘a was a new adventure for the lunch units, barely in its fourth month. Faced by a mounting supply of. flour from the federal government, Mrs. Grace Hunter, school lunch supervisor for the county |Schools , decided she had bett er get busy or lose the commodities. “Rallying her cooks behind her CAKE TOPPING of thick frosting sprinkled generously with coconut gets special attention from Mrs. Leone Haven (left) and Mrs. Leone Bingham just before lunch lime at the Wahlquist Junior High School. Each of the _ ¢akes measure about 18 by 30 inches and will be cut |