Five or ten minutes before the oven will be needed for baking, light both burners and before putting the articles to be baked into the oven, regulate the flame so as to obtain the desired amount of heat.

A two-pound box loaf of bread should bake one hour in a temperature of 400°; smaller loaves may be baked in a slightly hotter oven and removed when a nice brown. Ten minutes before taking the bread from the oven turn off the gas entirely, in order to utilize the heat remaining in the oven.

Rolls require a temperature of about 430°.

Baking powder biscuits, gems and quick muffins about 500°.

In baking all these articles place them on the middle or upper rack, as the heat in a gas range oven is usually more uniform in the upper part.

If the proper amount of gas is used everything baked in these ovens should be a beautiful and uniform brown. If the bottom scorches before the top is brown, it is usually an indication that too much gas was used. If one has not an oven thermometer the desired results may be obtained by carefully observing the amount of gas turned on each time, for each class of articles, if not just right the first time, more or less as required may be turned on the next and all succeeding times. By a little practice and intelligent observation one may soon obtain the most satisfactory results.