New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-06-13
RECIPES FOR CURED MEATS
Some Methods OF Preparing Dain.
ty Dishes.
Packing Houses Would Have Re.
port Suppressed.
Recipes Taken From Statements
of Committee Members.

There is something maddening inthe
plea of the packinghouse people to the
president not to make public the re-
port of the investigation committee,
Tor the simple reason that it will hurt
their business and not only their bust
ness, but the business of all stock
raisers and merchants in the United
| States.
It is perhaps true that it will hurt
the business of the packing houses.
1t should. Their iniquity is beyond
the power OF pen to describe, but it
should not hurt the business of the
stock raiseG, it should make it better.
When the refuse of the slaughtered
animal is thrown away as it should be
it will require very much larger per
cent OF pure meat to supply the mar
ket.
The following recipes as given by a
New York paper show to what extent
the refuse Of slaughtered animals is
used in the preparation of food for the
people and if by silencing the report
| the packers are able still to feed the
people of this country with such vile
stuff as this, then those who have the
report in hand are guilty of treason
against their country. Here are few
of the recipes:
TRUST RECIPE FOR TIMED ROAST BEEF
The poorest portion Of unfit cattle.
Cattle known as ''canners' or 'down-
ers," if they are too weak to stand,
are boiled until every grain of nutri-
ment is extracted and the extracts used
for beef extracts and kindred products,
while the meat, which is entirely value
less, is doctored to make it look right
| and not offend the taste.
| TRUST RECIPE FOR SAUSAGE.
One of the steady sources of supply
! of sausage meat comes from the meats
which have been shipped to branch
| houses. If sales are slow it remains
until mouldy, Shiny and unfit to be
sold in the original form and then is
sent back to the packing-house to be
converted into sausage.
TRUST RECIPE FOR sARDINE OIL.
Hogs that have died from cholera or
other causes are transformed into
surrendered hogs grease" which is
used all over the world for variety
OF purposes. Some Of it, under con
tract, goes to France aud comes back
to this country as sardine Oil.
TRUST RECIPE FOR FIRES HENING HAMS.
Putrid hams are placed on a work
ing table, and a man with foot-pump,
which works on the principle Of a
gigan tic hypodermic needle, fills them
with chemical which kills the odor.
TRUST RECIPE FOR NO. l LARD.
Hogs are more affected with cholera
than any other disease, but unless very
bad are tanked for lard. The heads
also, which have been condemned as
tuberculous. are almost invariably
tanked for lard
TRUST RECIPE FOR VEAL LOAF.
Carcasses of unborn calves are used
to make veal-lOaf
Whatever may be the conditions Of
the packinghouses from which this re.
port orig mated and for which allmea1
industries must suffer, there are houses
where these things do not prevail
The writer had the good fortune while
in Omaha recently to beshown through
the Armour concern there. It was
shortly before the great strike, and il
is hard to see how things could be
changed to better the sanitary condi
tions of that place. There was nc
trouble in getting a permit to visit the
institution and the doors were moi
closed in any of the departments
What was the constituents of the pre-.
pared stuff, of course, it was not pos.
sible to determine, but as far as clean.
illness is concerned this place was
clean, abs Olutely.