Class _XX3^:7 foipglitl^? CSEIRICHT DEFOSIE THE ABINGDON WAR-FOOD BOOK FOREWORD By HERBERT HOOVER THE WORLD FOOD PROBLEM By VERNON KELLOGG Of U. S. Food Aciministration THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT SCARCITY OF PROVISIONS By the late REV. JOHN WESLEY WAR TIME RECIPES AND MENUS By CHARLOTTE HEPBURN ORMOND I THE ABINGDON PRESS NEW YORK CINCINNATI r-' ^r^ WAR TIME RECIPES AND MENUS Copyright, 191 8, by CHARLOTTE HEPBURN ORMOND AUG 17 {318'' ^ SC;./.50I5S6 CONTENTS PAGE Foreword 5 Introduction 7 Thoughts on the Present Scarcity of Provi- sions, BY John Wesley 11 War Time Recipes and Menus: Soups 33 Meats 35 Meat Substitutes 39 Salads 42 Desserts 45 Breads 51 Menus for Meatless Days 54 FOREWORD I HAVE read with lively interest John Wes- ley's "Thoughts" about food difficulties. The difficulties that he noted in 1773 are still with us. Some people have too much food and some have too little. Such conditions have always existed and always will exist under our present social organization — and perhaps under any possible social organization. But at the present time we have newer and greater food problems; they are international problems. Now it is some nations, not only individuals, who have more food than is necessary, while others stand face to face with national starvation. Our duty, therefore, is a double one. We must try to solve in some measure the great international food problems and at the same time not forget those more individual problems of which Wesley spoke. And the solving of the greater will help us in the solution of the lesser prob- lems, for the stimulus of the present inter- national food situation serves to arouse the interest of everyone in all food problems. So it may be, when the war is past, we shall 5 6 FOREWORD be able to turn from the international food problems to those that Wesley noted with a new interest and a more active endeavor. Faithfully yours, Herbert Hoover. INTRODUCTION— THE WORLD FOOD PROBLEM Wise old John Wesley's words uttered a century and a half ago remind us that the food problem is no new thing and that waste or ill-directed use of food has been the cause of suffering wherever and whenever it oc- curred. But there is a reason for food difficulties to-day to which Wesley does not refer. War, and war on a scale of this greatest war of all time, can produce swiftly a shortage of food for whole peoples, including rich and poor alike. It does this by reducing production and obstructing distribution. So that the food problem to-day is not simply that of Wesley's day, which was to find some way of getting sufficient food to the very poor, but it is a problem of finding sufficient food for nations. In Belgium there are many rich people as well as many poor, but all depend for their daily bread on a meager, but equal, ration. The Belgian banker gets no more bread than the Belgian workman. And that either banker or workman get any at all depends upon an 8 INTRODUCTION extraordinary arrangement involving the con- sent of various other nations and the efforts of a foreign relief organization.

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COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT THE ABINGDON WAR-FOOD BOOK FOREWORD By HERBERT HOOVER THE WORLD FOOD PROBLEM By VERNON KELLOGG Of U. S. Food Administration THOUGHTS ON THE PRESENT SCARCITY OF PROVISIONS By the late REV. JOHN WESLEY WAR TIME RECIPES AND MENUS By CHARLOTTE HEPBURN ORMOND THE ABINGDON PRESS NEW YORK CINCINNATI r-' ^r^ WAR TIME RECIPES AND MENUS Copyright, 1918, by CHARLOTTE HEPBURN ORMOND ^ CONTENTS PAGE Foreword 5 Introduction 7 Thoughts on the Present Scarcity of Provisions, BY John Wesley 11 War Time Recipes and Menus: Soups 33 Meats 35 Meat Substitutes 39 Salads 42 Desserts 45 Breads 51 Menus for Meatless Days 54 FOREWORD I HAVE read with lively interest John Wesley's "Thoughts" about food difficulties. The difficulties that he noted in 1773 are still with us. Some people have too much food and some have too little. Such conditions have always existed and always will exist under our present social organization — and perhaps under any possible social organization. But at the present time we have newer and greater food problems; they are international problems. Now it is some nations, not only individuals, who have more food than is necessary, while others stand face to face with national starvation. Our duty, therefore, is a double one. We must try to solve in some measure the great international food problems and at the same time not forget those more individual problems of which Wesley spoke. And the solving of the greater will help us in the solution of the lesser problems, for the stimulus of the present international food situation serves to arouse the interest of everyone in all food problems. So it may be, when the war is past, we shall 6 FOREWORD be able to turn from the international food problems to those that Wesley noted with a new interest and a more active endeavor. Faithfully yours, Herbert Hoover. INTRODUCTION— THE WORLD FOOD PROBLEM Wise old John Wesley's words uttered a century and a half ago remind us that the food problem is no new thing and that waste or ill-directed use of food has been the cause of suffering wherever and whenever it occurred. But there is a reason for food difficulties to-day to which Wesley does not refer. War, and war on a scale of this greatest war of all time, can produce swiftly a shortage of food for whole peoples, including rich and poor alike. It does this by reducing production and obstructing distribution. So that the food problem to-day is not simply that of Wesley's day, which was to find some way of getting sufficient food to the very poor, but it is a problem of finding sufficient food for nations. In Belgium there are many rich people as well as many poor, but all depend for their daily bread on a meager, but equal, ration. The Belgian banker gets no more bread than the Belgian workman. And that either banker or workman get any at all depends upon an 8 INTRODUCTION extraordinary arrangement involving the consent of various other nations and the efforts of a foreign relief organization.

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