The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1908-10-16
DECREE IS OUT
AGAINST SOAP IN
THE SODA WATER
Frozen Product Must BE Cream
and Meats Must Be Smoked
Instead of Soaked.


Brookings S. D., Oct. 1t.-South Da-
kota is one of group of western
states which proposes to say that water
shall not be sold as oysters. that ice
cream shall really be frozen cream.
that smoke shall be vapor and not
liquid and that the proprierors OF
soda fountains shall not soft soap"
their drinks.
This is announced by Dairy and
Food Commissioner A. II. Wheaton
and State Chemist J. II. Shepard. who
have just returned from conference
at Madison. Wis. of pure food authori-
ties FROM North Dakota, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Iowa. illinois. Indiana and
Michigan and South Dakota. 1t was
the object of this meeting to formu-
late a basis for the rulings to be mado
by the food commissioners Of these
states, as ii is recognized as of ad-
vantage in the enforcement of the law
and less troublesome to dealers, if the
regulation in the uniform states are
uniform
Devotees OF soda fountains who have
been educated to believe that ice cream
is really better if corn starch and
gelatine and water are substituted for
cream, viii! be interested u know that
1t is proposed to make ice cream live
up to it's name. 1t is to be defined
as d frozen product made from cream
and sugar With or withou: a natural
fiavoring, and containing not less than
IA per cent of milk fat" Now, as raw
cream usually contains from 16 to Is
per cent of butter fat, it viii! be seen
that the ice cream OF the future in
the middle west is TO be worthy OF the
,itie Fruit or nut ice cream, however,
need have but IL per cent OF butter
fat. If ge!atine, tragacanth or other
vegetable, gum or eggs are used the
label must so announce, and the butter
fat must not fall below the required
standards.
Soap Bark for "Fizzes."
Some drug stores make practice
OF boiling a pound of soap bark--a
substance used for taking stains out
of clothes-in a gallon of water. strain
ing the liquid and adding a half pound
of boraN. Two ounces of this remark
able concoction is then added to each
gallon of syrup and it makes the soda
water effervesce With enthusiasm
The pure food experts have concluded
that it is not exactly right to feed
people soap in the guise Of soda water
and so it is to be tabooed. Soft drinks
which contain cocaine and fasten drug
habits on patrons without their knowl-
edge. are to be forbidden. Even cof-
fee is TO be prohibited as a flavor for
soft drinks, it being declared that "the
addition Of caffein is unnecessary and
reaching as it does largely TO the child
population. is fraught with extreme
danger and constitutes a menace"
The modern way of smoking" fish.
| ham, bacon or sausage is to sink ii
In barrel of liquid and keep it there
some days or weeks. This invention
has meant good many tens of thou
sands OF dollars to the packers, but
the food commissioners have declared
the practice fraudulent and injurious
and will contest the sale of any of
these meats not genuinely smoked.
No Dogs in Sausage.
Once these guardians of the public
stomach have had their way, house
wives need no longer worry because
they are given pint of oysters and Il
pint of water when they order a quart
cluded after due deliberations that
oysters are not water and that water
is not oysters. Consequently shucked
I. bivalves are not to be "adulterated" by
water or ice. because the practice has
the effect of Towering. deprecatirr
and injuriously affecting their strength,
quality and purity"
Sausage is defined and it is speci-
! fed ii shalt contain no more waler
than the original meat. and if cereals
are mixed with the meat the label mus
state the fact. The commissioners. ii
appears are strongly inclined to allow
the people to mix their own foods wiki
each other or with water
Some Of these states already i,avo
some of these regulations in force, but
these are chiefly new recommends
tions. Two representatives of tho
bureau of chemistry at WASHINGTON
were OF Madison and gave the com. M
missioners and chemists many sugges.
tionS