White flour was little used and was of a poor quality.

Baking powder was unknown and all forms of cakes and warm bread were made with sour milk and soda, easily ruined by too much or too little of the latter.

In no particular did the table compare favorably with that of modern families.
[Illustration: THE FARM-HOME NEAR ROCHESTER, N.Y., 1845-65.] The anti-slavery and woman's rights lecturers always accepted private hospitality when offered, for reasons of economy and, as many of the people who favored these reforms were seeking light in other directions also, they were very apt to find themselves the guests of "cranks" upon the food question and were thus made the subject of most of the experiments in vogue at that period.

On one occasion Miss Anthony, Aaron Powell and Oliver Johnson were entertained by prominent and well-to-do people in a town near New York, who had not a mouthful for any of the three meals except nuts, apples and coarse bran stirred in water and baked.

At the end of one day the men ignominiously fled and left her to stay over Sunday and hold the Monday meeting.