The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-07

Sioux City. Iowa, Nov. 6.-With the
declaration that his conscience has
been torturing him, Duke II. Bash
ford. chemist, author Of thirty-one
years In assisting manufacturers to
adulterate food, made public confess
sions OF the shameful taking Of food
which he has participated in or known
about.
TT has been all but demonstrated
that any food product can be made ar
tificially." Mr.. Bashford says. "and
have superintendent the manufacture
of butter without cream, milk without
the aid Of the cow, beer without bar
ley or hops, whisky without the usual
process of distillation, sugar from
waste paper and rags, preserves and
jam from corn, favoripg extracts from
coal-tar products, mustard from tu-
meric, pepper from cocoa shells. vim
egar for 10 cents a barrel from sui
phuric acid, tomato catsup from
starch. color and flavor, horseradish
from starch and flavor, maple syrup,
Orleans molasses or. honey in comb
from glucose and acids, jams of all
kinds by combining glucose and acids,
olive oil from cotton seed, and many
others.
Breeds Disease.
IT can prove to any intelligent per-
of this country, and especially the new
| diseases, are caused by the adultera-
| ton of food products. My earnings
have been many thousands year
teaching manufacturers with credit
and reputation above par the art of
their fellow-men. I want now to I'M
do as much as possible of what have
done, to expose the secrets of the adul-
terating manufacturer.
Butter can be- made at a cost OF
8 cents a pound by soaking a calves
rennet in diluted alcohol, straining
mixing the fluid with dry bread, dry
| ing, grinding into powder and using
as much of the powder as would cover
a dime with a. pint Of fresh milk and
a pound Of butter. Butter color, such
as Is used BY many dairies, Is made by
boiling orange-colored aniline In cot
ton-seed oil for four hours and filter
ing thru paper. This ana1ine is high
ly poisonous, containing arsenic, and
is unfit for domestic use.
| AN imitation cream that is really
Wholesome can be made by using g
half gallon of fresh milk, an ounce
Of corn starch and one egg; the starch
should be mixed with a little water
and tablespoonful Of sugar; the egg
should be beaten and all mixed well
A few years ago a man Travelled from
Maine to California selling a bogu,
milk recipe for $3.50. 1t was as fol
lows: Carbonate of soda, one-fourtf
ounce; fresh milk, one quart; sugar
one pound; caramel, ten drops; sugar
of milk, one ounce; dissolve the soda
in water, mix and eyaporate to tn,
consistency Of cream; finish evapora
ton In an oven till the mass becomes
dry powder; one ounce of powder will
a pint Of water makes first-class milk
MANY cases Of so-called ptomain,
poisoning are caused in reality by thu
Tactic or butyric acid in milk attack
ing lead In vessels In which the mill
has been placed, forming lactate O.
ACETATE of lead, both frightful poisons
Syrup from Paper and Rags.
Some people are skeptical abou
syrup being made from waste pape
orlrags. They should try ittWith thi
; formula: Shreds of paper or linen
twelve parts; sulphuric acid, seven
teen parts; mix In cool place; II
tWenty-four hours dilute this mixtur
', with 100 parts Of water, boil for tel
hours. neutralize with chalk and Sc
: aside to chrystallize. .Sawdust, glue
ETC., yield sugar by this treatment.
Glucose, made by boiling corr
starch in a per cent solution Of sui
phuric acid and neutralizing with a.
alkali, is not nearly SO sweet as can
syrup. So the manufacturer Of suga
drtps, honey syrup, fruit of cane, Ne1
Orleans molasses, golden syrup, etc
uses one part of saccharine for eac.
1000 parts of glucose. This sac
charine is made by boiling benzoi
acid in diluted sulphuric acid and the
treating it. with bicarbonate Of soda
This Is from 500 to 500 times as swee
as the best cane sugar.
, Maple and Honey Frauds.
IT have sold about 200 formulas t
the owners Of maple sugar camps TO