At West Kent Quarter Sessions, Maidstone, Benjamin Shepherd, confectioner, was charged with stealing two gross of aniseed balls and other articles, to the value of £3, the property of William Hodges, Chatham, between 1 June and 3 October.

Oct 7, 1955: Sainsbury's ends home deliveries

Now that the sale of beer is again permitted in America, a marked increase in bread consumption has already been noted and it is expected that there will be further improvement in this direction.

The news has come this week of the experiments of a large producer of bread to combat the competition of the "oven-hot" loaf of the family baker. With the widening field that must ever be sought for plant-produced bread, these manufacturers have been seeking a method of producing oven-fresh bread before the customer.

Fancy bread remains as far from definition as ever. The time has arrived to take action, and fancy bread ought to be put once and for all out of the region of anomalies and made thoroughly intelligible both to producer and consumer.

The importance of seeing that everything is perfect cannot be overestimated. For instance, say you have made 24 Madeira cakes that are not all they should be. The batter may have been cold and, instead of being potential 'trade-getters', the resultant cakes are a little tough.

"Tabloid" tea is the finest Ceylon and Indian teas compressed into a small tablet of uniform size.

Last week, a most interesting programme appeared on television, dealing with ‘the teenage problem’.

Britain has repeated efforts to procure legislation prohibiting night work in bakeries.

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• The wise man spends money right, the spendthrift right and left

Most London bakers are becoming seriously perturbed about the position of flour prices in relation to the official Food Council scale for bread prices.