Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-04-14
HERE'S WAR TIME RULES
FOR GERMAN HOUSEWIVES

In lines with the efforts that are
being made universally to conserve
Germany's food supply, DR.. F.. Wohlt-
mann, director of the agricultural in
stitute of the University of Halle, has
issued a pamphlet entitled Twenty
Rules FIR the German husewife." He
prefaces his brchure with the declara-
ton that she must help to win the
war" The rules include the following:
/. The consumption of white bread
and cakes must If possible be aband-
oned entirely, or cut down by one quar-
ter.
,. Rye n potato bread must sup
plant white bread and not one crumb
must be wasted.
q. Hulled oats must be employed
the children.
4. In place of the decreasing supply
of lintels, peas n beans we must
utilize potato and meat soups.
5. Potatoes must become our basic
food and %supplant the failing grain
supply. Adults must increase their po-
tato consumption by 400 grams a day,
whether in bread, SOU or cooked pota-
toes. 1t is thed duty of the housewife to
prepare potatoes in as great a variety
of ways as possible so they shall con-
tinue to be palatable, and to cook
them without peeling to avoid waste.
s. The appetite for meat must not
be over exercised. 1t a been too
greatly cultivated heretofore. Only
those who have mental n physical
work to perform ave any right to eat
meat daily. One should favor pork n
mutton and for the time being spare
beef n veal.
Z. Our use OF galne and fish should
be restricted in order to replace the
diminishing supply of these foods.
8. Eggs must be carefully conserved
and. with their restricted use in cake.
be employed In other foods and GRAVES.
g.. Butter, cheese and cream must be
used sparingly. Bread should be spread
thinly with butter.
10. Milk is available in sufficiency
and should be given to the children
particularly.
II. The taste for sugar should be in
creased wherever possible, in drinks.
SOUPS. marmalade and pastry. 1t may
also be used in water and served in
place of beer. The average consump-
ton of 20 Kilograms a year should b.
increased to at least As Kilograms.
II. AS long as southern fruits. lem
nuts. ETC., are coming in, their plentiful
use is to be recommended. even il they
become expensive, to supplement tho
home larder. With oranges at their
present low price. they should be made
into strongly sugared marmalade.
10. The plentiful fruit harvest this
year should be utilized for fruit sauces;
marnalade and syrups.
IA. Vegetables, especially asparagus,
should be used in quantity during tho
coming spring n summer
Is. Coffee, tea and cocoa are still
available in sufficiency and at moder-
ate prices. Their use. however. must
soon be restricted, and for tina reason
they should be prepared more weakly,
and with more
16. Spices must be used sparingly.
even though there is plenty of salt on
hand.
II. OF alcoholic beverages there is a
sufficiency in the country; nevertheless.
In war time their use should be TEN.
pered.
10 ALI remnants of food and kitchen
scraps must be carefully saved for use
In feeding the cattle.
19. Fat should be used sparingly I'm
cooking: lard should be supplemented
by kidney fat. beef tallow, and other
oils.
20. Those who are not short OF mon
ey should purchase supplies now aNd
store them UP. so that when summer
comes the question of feeding the peo-
pie shall not become universal and
alarming.
DR.. Wehltmann adds that .he who
follows these 20 rules fulfills a patri.
otto and ethical duty, fighting. like tho
warriors in the field, for the victory
n the existence of the people,"