The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1915-09-11
TOMATO PULP USEFUL.
Little Known Form of Tomato
Will Be Found Cheap and
Convenient.

Tomato pulp is one form in which
tomatoes may be used with which the
average housewife is not as familiar
as with the other. It is, however, a
convenient and cheap product for use
as soup stock, :. seasoning, and in
sauces for meat and fish. The fact
that. in the past much tomato pulp
has been made from inferior material
and under unsatisfactory conditions
need not now deter the purchaser, for
a little care in the inspection of the
label on the container and the pro-:
duct itself will enable anyone with a
reasonable degree of certainty to Sc
lect wholesome and sound brand
although with tomato pulp, as with
number Of other food products, the
purity of the article in certain cases
can be determined conclusively only
by a chemical or microscopic exam
nation.
Tomato pulp is made by removing
the skins and seeds from the vege-
table by putting it through a machine
called cyclone. The resulting pulp
is then boiled down to the desired
consistency. In common practice the
volume of the tomatoes is reduced in
the process about one-half. Ordin-
ari1y, the pulp is packed for house.
hold use in No. 1 cans, which hold
approximately 10 ounces net.
Although tomato pulp prepared in
this way has been on the market for
some time, it has not been used in
this country as extensively as in Italy
| and elsewhere in Europe. Many
housewives apparently believe that it
is. of no use except as a foundation
for tomato soup. It can, however, be
utilized in many other ways which
win readily suggest themselves to any
experienced cook. In the past, how
! ever, the product has been found to
be SO varied that a recipe which gives
good results at one time may prove
most unsatisfactory at another, even
though the same brand of pulp is
used This is easily understood when
one remembers that before the pass
age of the Federal Food and Drugs
act there was nothing to prevent the
Introduction into the product of what
it known as Gamers waste, the refuse
from the tomato-p ee1ing tables in
tomato-canning establishments Much
of this material was most unsatis-
factory from a sanitary standpoint,
and at best it's composition could not
be definitely known in advance. !.
> Under the Federal. Food and Drugs
| act. however, much of what was
known as "skin and core" pulp has
| been eliminated from interstate com
merce and has thus left an opening
dor high grade whole tomato pulp.
| Under former conditions the manu-
! fach1rer OF this high:grade product
i could not compete with inferior
i brands because of the low price al
which the latter could be sold. AL
! though the consumer usually pays
about cents q can for high and low
grade pulp alike, there Is q great diff.
ference iii the cost Of manna cture
4 Skin and core pulp has sold al
4 wholesale for as little as rs cents a
dozen cans, while good sound pulr
4 from whole tomatoes can scarcely be
\ put out for less than IS or 40 cents
4 Although, as has been said, much
Of the Questionable pulp is no Longer
on the market, 1t Is well for the Gus.
4 toner to bear in mind two points
/, Pulp that is made not from whole to.
matoes but from trimmin Is, ant
q passes through interstate commerce
must bear upon the label some sucf
h expression as Made from small to.
b matoes and trimming US & Made. from
D pieces OF tomatoes and Trimmings.
q q Made from toInat oS clippings anfi
81 whole tonnat etc TonaAt TO pulp B.
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