Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26
COTTON.SEED OIL.
Its Value as an Article of Food in Europe
and America-Extensively Used.

There is a large market for cotton-seed
oil in this city, and an establishment where
the refining process is carried on. The oil
is supplied to soap-makers, lard refiners
bakers, confectioners, grocers, bottlers OF
olive oil, paint mixers, screw cutters, manu-
facturers of putty, butterine- makers, etc,
the material reaching the consumer through
all these and other avenues of trade
Special efforts have recently been made to
introduce it to the attention of bakers, and
through the groccrs ard butchers, to house
holds for use in cooking. 1t is said to be
preferred by those who use it because it is a
pure and wholesome article of food, about
which there is not, and cannot be, shadow
or faint of disease of any kind; while the
hog and all other animals are liable to
cholera, trichina, and other diseases for
which reason their product carries with it
the seeds of bodily ills TO the human family
through the medium of the kitchen II is
strange that the public should turn up its
nose at the article which is pure and whole
some, while willingly buying and using it
as an adulterant of lard, butterine and
other articles used as food,
Bakers and others who use cottonseed
oil are as yet backward to acknowledge it,
chiefly owing to the prejudice that exists
in the public mind against its use, which
in turn is due to general knowledge of
the fact that it is sometimes employed as
an adulterant. But some of the most pro-
gressiye bakers and merchants are growing
more disposed to openly proclaim that
they use the article and to give their rea
sons therefor. OF course the principal
reason is the fact that the oil is econom-
ical, which should, however, be a strong
recommendation so long rs it can be proved
that the article is healthy. 1t is estimated
that for bakers use three pounds of the oil
will do the work Of four pounds of lard,
while the cost at wholesale is at present a
quarter of cent per pound less for the
former than for the latter.
In the manufacture of high grades OF
soap cotton-seed oil has no superior, and
large soap-makers use several thousand
barrels of it annually. Lard refiners are
SO heavy buyers. Miners in the west
use it almost to the exclusion of other
kinds of oil for illuminating purposes, as
it is non-explosive and gives very good
light. But its chief value will yet be found
to lie in its qualities as an article of hui
man food. as it is builder up and sus-
tainer of bone and sinew. 1t promises to
be great aid to consumptiveS and other
weak constitutions.
Cotton-seed oil contains no less than So
per cent. of nutriment. This statement is
iOuilu III report ItCtutiS iiiduc W 1dFlld-
ment by the Purveyor of the English army
in regard to the use of certain articles as
food. He recommended cotton seed oil as
heat producer and substitute for other
fats and largely as substitute for meat.
American cotton-seed Oil has also played
an important part in the rapid recuperation
of France after her exhaustive war with Ger
many. The French are large raisers OF
cereals, and as they cost the consumer
about four-fifths as much as meat, the
French people have eaten their cereals and
sold their meat, using cotton-seed oil in the
place of the latter, serving it up in combi-
nation with preparations from grain in the
many palatable ways for which that people
are noted. Spain, Portugal. Italy, and
other southern European countries are ha.
bitual consumers of cotton-seed oil, while
Germany. England, and Russia, use large
quantities, mostly as food. In the army Of
the last named country, it forms part Of
the regular rations. and it has found its
way even into Siberia, where the hunters
carry it with them as part of their regular
supplies.5[Chi Tribune.