Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-03-04

ct an Inch thick. One OF these tablets
makes ak sample ''portions, expanding
in bulk greatly when boiling water Is
poured over 1t. The material 10 used like
fresh onions.
These preparations, In fact, are the most
delicate substitutes for fresh vegetables.
Cabbages are put up in four ounce tablets
like the desicoated onions just described,
one making six portions. 1t Is directed
that little -four and salt should be add
ed, with bit of butter II obtainable. Like
wise from Germany are a special kind OF
compressed cabbages-the "Savoy red
headed" As for potatoes-of course this
vegetable Of vegetables cannot be omitted
they are furnished In granulated form
like the carrots, and one pound represents
peck, 20 highly are they compressed. Po-
tato -four Is highly recommended for pan.
cakes. being nutritious and very palatabls
In that shape. The -four is made BY cut.
ting the potatoes In thin slices, drying
them by artificial heat and grinding them
to powder. L. Vi @.'.A ,:'@
Likewise q product Of United States
manufacture is q preparation Of 10 differ
emit vegetables mixed together and pressed
Into q tablet three inches square. OF
French make 10 q concentrated mixture OF
vegetables and meal. It comes in six
ounce tin boxes, holding 81 little tablets.
each ono wrapped in red paper. One tablet
dropped into pint Of boiling water yields
q bowl Of delicious soup.
< A good part Of the Klondike provisions
consists Of compressed meats. Some OF
these is desicoated beef, which IL simply
ordinary beef with the water taken out OF
IL. One ounce of 1t equals five ounces OF
the fresh beef one buys at the butchers.
II is reduced, furthermore, to very small
bulk by pressure, and this makes 1t 80
hard that 1t cannot be cut with o knife.
When piece ia wanted for use, 1t has to
be chopped off the lump. Then the piece
10 put into a little machine like coffee
mill and ground up, coming out In the
form Of shavings, which serve for eating
on bread or as stock for soup. A similar
kind Of compressed meat is composed OF
one-fourth pork and three-fourth corned
beef. 8
Powdered beef 10 another highly con-
centrated food material. 1t contains every
bit Of the nutriment Of the original meat,
and being perfectly water free takes up
comparatively little room. Nearly oil
foods, be it observed, contain more than
80 per cent of water. In the case OF most
vegetables the percentage Is enormously
greater. But 1t must not be forgotten that
the water ia q valuable element. The des-
located vegetable is not 80 heathful az
fresh food when the latter can be obtained.
Even eggs are desiccated. There is no
difficulty about sending eggs In this form
to the Klondike. A preparation favorably
thought of, called formulated egg," is
made In st. Louis. One ounce Of 1t is
equal to three freshly broken hens eggs
TO the eye 1t resembles sawdust. Its man
ufacturo is very simple, the fresh eggs be-
ness, scraped from the pans and ground to
powder. There is also "crystallized egg"
production on the market, and for 81 cents
Q pound one may buy go called egg albu.
men," which looks like fine quality Of
glue In small bits, golden yellow and
transparent. 1t 10 made from the eggs OF
wild fowl and 10 imported.
- OK tail soup, rice soup, oatmeal soup,
lsntil soup. etc., arc put up In the form OF
tablets two inches square and weighing
four ounces. 3. You put q tablet in water
and after . few minutes boiling you have
enough broth for six persons. But these
articles, though we'll enough for condensed
emergency rations, are not adapted for the
miners Of the Klondike for reasons already
suggested. Bean hour In bricks 10 all
right and 60 10 pea -four similarly prepar.
ID, TX pounds Of either being food enough
Tor . man for six days. The peas and
beans are steam roasted, ground dne --saa-
soning being added, with some beat e.
tract for stock-and reduced to tho small
ct possible bulk by dry heat and pressure.
A pound Of bcans or peas contains much
more flesh forming food than . pound Of
lean beefsteak. Condensed bread has been
tried and proved . failure.-St. Louis
Post Dispatch. ~ .-F