New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1911-02-08
I0WAN PRODUCES
ELIXIR OF YOUTH.
Sour Milk Ice Cream Is His
Old Age Cure.
BuLGARlANS FOLLOW THE PLAN

Soda Fountain True Spring For Per.
pstuaI Juveniles, Asserts Professor
Mortsnssn Of the Hawksys State,
Agricultural coIlese-Givss Formul.
Of Battling Bacteria to World.
Professor Mortensen of the dairy de
partment Of the Iowa State Agricultur
al college at Ames, Ia, has invented q
new frozen elixir Of life which he calls
lactO.
When Professor Metchnikofr of the
Pasteur institute at Paris published
his book on "rhe Prolongation of Life
Professor Mortensen got an idea
Metchnikoff traced the cause of old
age to the putrefactive bacteria that
make their home in the intestines
These bacteria throw of poisons
which cause liz health, old age and
finally death. The way to dislodge
them is to give them dose of their
own medicine. The Tactic acid bac
terra which are found in sour milk pro-
duce an acid which is fatal to their
poisonous relatives.
In certain districts of Bulgaria,
where sour milk is regular article OF
diet, the people are said to live to an
old age not approached elsewhere
But people generally don't like to
drink sour milk.
Bacteria Made PaIatabie.
So Professor Mortensen started to
work out his idea, which was to sup
ply the Tactic acid bacteria in a pala.
table form. At first he diluted the elk
If Of life with buttermilk favored with
fruit juices. Later he decided to put
his Tactic acid bacteria in cold storage
and market them in the form of ice
cream rather than as a drink.
Here was the opportunity. An ice
cream cone afioat in a sea of soda wa
ter has come to be the great national
drink of the United States.
The substitution of lacto for ice
cream cannot but result in a great i'm
prOvement in the health of the fire.
quenter of the soda fountain, Profes-
sor Mortensen believes. Aside from
being loaded with friendly bacteria, II
contains less fat than ice cream, which,
makes it more digestible. Lacto con-
tains a high amount of protein, the
muscle building part of the food.
lacto Had Majority.
An experiment was carried on at
Ames to see just how we'll lacto was
liked by the average person. Out of
ITO persons who sampled lacto 1913 pro
nounced it very good, thirty-seven
good. six fair and eight poor. Compar-
ing it with common vanilla ice cream.
III reported that they preferred lacto,
nine considered it equal to ice cream,
and fifty-nine preferred ice cream.
Lacto is made of loppered whole or
skimmilk, with the addition of eggs,
sugar, lemons and favoring material.
1t can be made in one gallon freezer
on the back porch as easily as in the
factory. The family recipe given by
Professor Mortensen is as follows:
Take bottle of good fresh milk
which has not been heated and set it
away in temperature of from GS to
70 degrees F. until it curdles. If it
forms smooth solid curd without
pinholes, II the aroma IS clean and
pleasant and the flavor nice and
creamy, it can be used as u starter for
a larger amount Of pasteuriZed whole
or skimmilk. .....
After this second batch of milk has
curdled it should have mild clean
acid flavor. The curd must be thor
oughly broken up by the pouring from
one dish to another until it is as thick
and velvety rs rich cream.
Formula Of Elixir.
From this "lacto milk lacto can be
made by the following formula, which
ia sufficient for one gallon:
Two and one-half quarts lacto milk.
One and four-fifths pounds sugar
Two eggs.
One-half pint cherry Juice or concen-
trated cherry sirup.
One-third pint lemon juice.
Other fruit flavors can be used in
stead of cherry as desired. The yolks
and whites are beaten in separate con-
tainers. Both are then added to the
milk The mixture is thoroughly stir
red and strained through fine wire
gauze The fruit juices are added last.
If there is any indication Of the juices
the casein they should
not be added until the mixture has be-
gun to freeze.
The freezer is run until it turns with
difficulty, when the paddle Is removed
The brine is removed and the freezer
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