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How to Keep Flour

EING highly absorbent, flour should not be exposed to contact with other foods, vegetables, etc. It should be kept away from oils and odors of all sorts.

It should be scrupulously free from damp, otherwise it will quickly "work" and lose at least part of its baking qualities. When Five Roses is purchased by the barrel, elevate the barrel so that there may be a free current of air beneath it to prevent the flour at the bottom of the barrel from becoming musty.

A farmer's wife who stacked her flour bags upstairs beside the kitchen flue said that the last sacks used were very much whiter and made much better bread than the first bags. This is because the flour was gradually warmed through by the gentle heat, being aged and dried, which works considerable improvement in a sound flour, making it much whiter and livelier in the dough.

When mice become troublesome, a hint might be taken from the grocer who kept these household pests from his flour and cereals by using fine mesh steel wire to protect his bags and barrels.