There are some large establishments in the cities doing an immense business in serving lunches of breads, rolls, coffee-cakes, pies, pastries and cakes with coffee, tea, and milk and no meats beyond a small reserve of ham sandwiches. The lunches of this description are cheap but where the goods are fresh made and of the highest possible excellence and the surroundings clean the extraordinary numbers of customers that avail themselves of it make the business one of great importance. Bread in every form is very cheap diet and cheapest of all when raised with yeast. The dough once made, a very considerable number of different articles such as raised cakes can be made from it easily. The first requisite is good yeast and as the compressed article is not everywhere to be obtained, it often becomes necessary for the baker to make his own, both stock and ferment.