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Foods that will win the war

1918

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Presented as published in 1918. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Wheatless: wary, NRO mUS ois ce ceteris roag ce wie aa sola bderteosl a/isits pate aya 113 Meatless. Day Whents Fe i.e Sess trees eha aes Cokes es eee es 115 Meat -SUbStiulkbe ADIMMENS 2 0. nite tes Petes os ote ve se we LG WiEMGL AMO WO INMCES 2 ony ans Peas Acta e a vw Shaya ee Oc nip sike e tore as 118 Save and Serve—Bread; Meat; Sugar; Fat; Milk; Vege- [UD ie eed alee CRO RON, or aie Oe Sar gm a Tae Ee DRONE Ear Be ote 1202) 24 The Recipes in this book have been examined and approved by the Umited States Food Admimstration Illustrations furnished by courtesy of the United States Food Administration LL the recipes in this book have been prepared and used in The School of Modern Cookery conducted by The Forecast Magazine and have been endorsed by the U. 8S. Food Administration. They have been worked out under the direction of Grace EK. Frysinger, graduate in Domestic Science of Drexel Institute, of Philadelphia, and the University of Chicago. Miss Fry- singer, who has had nine years’ experience as a teacher of Domestic Science, has earnestly used her skill to make these recipes practical for home use, and at the same time accurate and scientific. The above illustration shows a class at the School of Modern Cookery. ‘These classes are entirely free, the instruction being given in the interest of household eco- nomics. The foods cooked during the demonstration are sampled by the students and in this way it is possible to get in close touch with the needs of the homemakers and the tastes of the average family. FOODS: THAT.WILL WIN, THE WAR SAVE WHEAT Reasons Why Our Government Asks Us to Save Wheat, with Practical Recipes for the Use of Other Grains SLICE of bread seems an unimportant thing. Yet one good-sized slice of bread weighs an ounce. It contains almost three-fourths of an ounce of flour. If every one of the country’s 20,000,000 homes wastes on the average only one such slice of bread a day, the country is throwing away daily over 14,000,000 ounces of flour—over 875,000 pounds, or enough flour for over a million one-pound loaves a day. For a full year at this rate there would be a waste of over 319,000,000 pounds of flour—1,500,000 barrels—enough flour to make 365,000,- 000 loaves. As it takes four and one-half bushels of wheat to make a barrel of ordinary flour, this waste would repre- sent the flour from over 7,000,000 bushels of wheat. Four- teen and nine-tenths bushels of wheat on the average are raised per acre. It would take the product of some 470,000 acres just to provide a single slice of bread to be wasted daily in every home. 12 FOODS THAT WILL WIN THE WAR But some one says, ‘‘a full slice of bread is not wasted in every home.’’ Very well, make it a daily slice for every four or every ten or every thirty homes—make it a weekly or monthly slice in every home—or make the wasted slice thinner. The waste of flour involved is still appalling. These are figures compiled by government experts, and they should give pause to every housekeeper who permits a slice of bread to be wasted in her home. } Another source of waste of which few of us take ac- count is home-made bread. Sixty per cent. of the bread used in America is made in the home. When one stops to consider how much home-made bread is poorly made, and represents a large waste of flour, yeast and fuel, this housewifely energy is not so commendable. The bread flour used in the home is also in the main wheat flour, and all waste of wheat at the present time increases the short- age of this most necessary food. Fuel, too, is a serious national problem, and all coal used in either range, gas, or electric oven for the baking of poor bread is an actual national loss. There must be no waste in poor baking or from poor care after the bread is made, or from the waste of a crust or crumb.