Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-16
LAID snEAsE AnD vEsErABLE OLE.

As time goes on pure vegetable cotton
seed oil comes more and more into favor.
As experience teaches more housekeepers
how 10 use il, 1t Wins esteem, Tor experience
not only shows how it should be used but
why, and the why Is because OF its purity
and its whOlesomeness. Attention is directed
10 IT, especially just now, by exposures that
are making as to the filth and spurious
abomination that ia palmsd upon the public
In the name Of lard. The stuff sold under
that name carries its condemnation on the
very face Of II. Let a hOusekeeper carefully
render few pounds Of lard, and she will
fud the color slighlly brownish yellow, &C
comPanied by an appeuz ng smell. Now
compare with this a can OF purchased lard.
1t is white as paper, and the wholesome
smell Of the heme-rsndered article is absent.
1t those VINO Use and commune lard could see
the disgusting t2jIow and entraiis faL that go
into the lard tank, no persuasion could ever
induce them to sw allow it. When rendered,
the foul substance is subjected TO various
manipulations to remove bad smells, TO
change the color, and frsudulenuy TO in-
crease the weight by fixing a large quantity
OF water in the substance. OF course this
water which has been paid for flies of in
steam in the cooking. The white OF the
manipulated material that is still called lard
has no resemblance to that obtained by care
full domestic rendering. 1t is the staring
white Of white paper, for like the white pa
per the grease has been bleached By the use
OF chemicals and the addition OF water. The
rich browny -yellow is gone In looks and
smell and taste the manufactured msss is
another thing than that which its name indi-
Gates. 1t is not lard; it is grease aud tallow
ia great part, doctored and disguised 10 make
1t pass for the article, 80 very different from
1t, which the cook renders for home use
Does the reader-and we hope the ladies will
read what is here told them, they need to do
so-does the reader ask for proof of the truth
OF what has been said? The following, from
the great lard market, points out where the
proof lies. Chicago, it will be remembered,
stands prominent in the production OF lard
grease; and the Times speaking for Chi
csgO, confesses that large amount of tai
low is imported into that city which is never
heard Of again. II is Certainly not used for
tsllow candles, which have goue entirely out
of date, nor in any other known manufacture
and the fact that the tallow ID last seen on
the wharves Of the lard manufacturing COM
panies is regarded as q very suspicious cir
cumstanee. In defense Of this adulteration
the Times declares that, as far as wholesome
ness is concerned, the tallow of steers and
sheep is as good as lard, and it is merely a
popular PREJUDICE which prevents people
from enjoying it. There you have it, ladies,
in genuine Chicago style. Your objection o
candle talloW and entrails grease is "preiu-
dice" Ii is clear this unwhoIesome, dig
gushing stuff should be given up, and pure,
vegetable cotton-seed oil substituted for it.
The colored cook will require attention in
the matter, for she dislikes changing old
ways; but when she has once been won over
to the oil, her sweet biscuits and crusis and
fries will keep her steadily in it's use.