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the first day repeated, and brought others with them.

Before the first week passed, Lavely had reached an average daily sale of
over 150 dozen—all he could bake. He expanded his business and added
more equipment. As Watervliet is but a short drive from Paw Paw Lake,
Lavely figured he could do a brisk business with the summer resorts around
Paw Paw. So he hired a woman to help his wife bake doughnuts while he
packed sixty dozen in his car and drove down to the lake. Within two hours
he sold the entire lot to vacationists in cottages. After that he drove down to
the lake at least once every day. Later, he established a regular route to the
near-by towns of Marcellus, Lawrence, and Hartford, where he sold the
doughnuts at wholesale for fifteen cents a dozen to most of the restaurants,
retail stores, tea rooms, soda fountains and lunchrooms.

The cost of baking greaseless doughnuts averages under six cents a dozen
with the equipment Lavely used. His small machine bakes eight dozen in an
hour, or eighty dozen in a ten-hour day. Lavely started with two of these
machines, giving him a daily output of 160 dozen doughnuts. During the first
week, his sales totaled 900 dozen at twenty-five cents a dozen. When he had
deducted all his expenses he found that he had made quite a nice little profit
—about $161.

Greaseless doughnuts are baked in electrically operated bakers. They are not
fried like ordinary doughnuts. The doughnut batter used is exactly the same
as is used when baking the “greasy” doughnut. When packed in waxed paper
containers, greaseless doughnuts remain fresh for six to eight days. This type
of doughnut is quite easily digested and may be eaten without harm even by
chronic stomach sufferers.

Equipment for baking greaseless doughnuts may be set up in your own
kitchen and operated from a light socket. Demand for this product is always
good, and stores, lunchrooms, and restaurants are excellent outlets. You may
retail some to your friends and neighbors, as Lavely did, and before you
know it you will have a thriving business of your own. It has the great
advantage of being a business where satisfied customers draw others. The
average American takes to doughnuts like a duck takes to the water, and it