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EVERYDAY FOODS IN WAR TIME

MARY SWARTZ ROSE

ASSISTANT-PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION,
TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

New York

1918

The time has come, the Aggies said,

To talk of many things,

Of what to eat, of calories,

Of cabbages and kings,

Of vitamines and sausages,

And whether costs have wings.

Journal of Home Economics,
November, 1917.

PREFACE

“FOOD IS FUEL FOR FIGHTERS. Do not waste it. Save WHEAT, MEAT, SUGARS AND FATS. Send more to our Soldiers, Sailors and Allies.”

The patriotic housewife finds her little domestic boat sailing in uncharted waters. The above message of the Food Administration disturbs her ordinary household routine, upsets her menus and puts her recipes out of commission. It also renders inoperative some of her usual methods of economy at a time when rising food prices make economy more imperative than ever. To be patriotic and still live on one’s income is a complex problem. This little book was started in response to a request for “a war message about food.” It seemed to the author that a simple explanation of the part which some of our common foods play in our diet might be both helpful and reassuring. To change one’s menu is often trying; to be uncertain whether the substituted foods will preserve one’s health and strength makes adjustment doubly difficult. It is hoped that the brief chapters which follow will make it easier to “save wheat, meat, sugars and fats” and to make out an acceptable bill of fare without excessive cost.

Thanks are due to the Webb Publishing Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, for permission to reprint three of the chapters, which appeared originally in The Farmer’s Wife.

TEACHERS COLLEGE, Columbia University, New York City.

December 1, 1917.

CHAPTER I ~ THE MILK PITCHER IN THE HOME

CHAPTER II ~ CEREALS WE OUGHT TO EAT

CHAPTER III ~ THE MEAT WE OUGHT TO SAVE

CHAPTER IV ~ THE POTATO AND ITS SUBSTITUTES

CHAPTER V ~ ARE FRUITS AND VEGETABLES LUXURIES?

CHAPTER VI ~ FATS AND VITAMINES

CHAPTER VII ~ “SUGAR AND SPICE AND EVERYTHING NICE”

CHAPTER VIII ~ ON BEING ECONOMICAL AND PATRIOTIC AT THE SAME TIME

APPENDIX

SOME WAR TIME RECIPES