Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-03
New Pure Food Law Causes
Many Complaints From
Patrons
CAN'T REt eNlzE OLD BRANDS
colorins Matter Left Out Fools Gus
toners, and They Send Goods Back
a. Observation-Disclosures Extracts
Said to Hold Flavor setter Than
Pure Article.
Special to Times-Republican

Special to Times-Republican.
Fort Dodge, April Sort Dodge
grocers are considerably amused, sthey
say, on many occasions and In various
ways, as a direct result of the work.
ing of the pure food law.
Speaking of the law. local retail
grocer said: mo, we are not expert
encing any trouble with the canned
fruits and vegetables, for the stock the
grocers now have on hand was packed
last fall after the law was enacted and
complies In every way with the re-
Quirements of the federal and the Iowa
state laws. Some retail grocers may
still have q little stock on hand pur-
chased before the law took effect, and
which they are at liberty to sell until
July, 1907, but the majority of gro
GERS are entirely cleaned up on almost
all things which didn't conform. Ev :
erything we now get from Fort Dodge
jobbers complies with the law
Here's something that was just re-
turned to me this morning" said the
grocer reaching into a basket and
bringing out bottle Of certain brand
of oyster cocktail catsup." 1.-The lady
that ordered this returned 1T at once
with the delivery boy. saying she
could not use any stuff like that, that
it must be spoiled, that it surely could
not be good. etc. Well, just 'phoned
to her and explained matters, with
the result that she wants 1t sent back,
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You see this same brand of catsup has
always been beautiful red but this
new pure food pack is just the natur-
sup that housewife makes.
Imagination seems to go great
ways with butter Some farmers have
been reading that harmful coloring can
not be used in butter. Not being GER
tain which manufacture or coloring
can be lawfully used, some are not
coloring their butter, and here is where
we are having no small amount of
trouble. We receive, a nice fresh lot
of fine sweet, separator butter from
the country, butter of the same farmers
make that he had been supplying GER
tain customers every week. The color
ing has been left out, and for the first
time. these people who have been 50
we'll satisfied with this make of butter
right along, send 1t back to us, some
complaining that it is strong, some
can't eat it, others say it has some
funny TASTE and some say they know
1t is mixed with lard and you can't
fool them
zone thing that to my notion is not
going to make a great hit, is pure
vanilla extract. Now. that may sound
unreasonable, but nevertheless I believe
that to be fact. A prominent local
coffee, spice and extract house conduct
ed an experiment recently with strictly
pure extract of vanilla made from the
best grade of vanilla bean obtainable,
and also with imitation vanilla, made
from a combination of tonka bean,
coumarin, etc. and found that the pure
vanilla when subjected to the usual
amount of heat required in baking
cakes or boiling frostings, will lose it's
strength, while the imitation will hold
It's flavor no matter how much baking
or cooking 1t goes thru. For cold
uses, such as ice cream and ices, the
pure was found to hold its flavor as
well as but no better than the imita-
ton, so we recommend the latter
and can give the people a larger bottle
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