Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-01-26
Within the Iron Rlma: 1.-The German War Table
By Frederic j. HaSkin

German family, following a widespread custom,
never served bread and potatoes together
Sundays feast days. The family consumed
their entire allowance Sundays, and, additional
beans. fruits cooked with
OUT sugar were served The meat was mostly beef az
there has been shortage of pork Another custom of
this family keep the allowance of bread belong
ing each member separate. SO that each would bs
assured getting his full ration, and also 60
prevent quarrels. Butter, milk and sugar never
appeared the table.
Desserts have almost entirely eliminated
the diet. Before the German bakeries
famed for their delicious cakes The cakes still made
and served in the cafes of the larger cities mildly
sweetsh biscuits of flour, without eggs. milk
or butter The great mass of the people have been
forced to give coffee tea and chocolate and to
tent themselves with substitutes While coffee is still
all cafes. Is hardly more than slightly
discolored boiled water Good coffee is still to be
obtained in the frsclass of Berlin
costs 25 cents and it is served with thin milk
and saccharine tablets.
Characterization war table is that every
thing it is boiled There fat or oil to
be distributed that families have given
frying In the early days OF the fat shortage people
fried their vegetables. their fish and their meats in
olive oil and in other vegetable fats Now however
such fat oil, procured eaten upon bread
1t must not be wasted in frying pans
Milk is used only sparingly on the war table It
Trims the coffee and coffee substitutes It IS
children. Eggs too in thousand and one guises
nowadays, seldom the table. custom of two
soft boiled for breakfast fallen away want
of sufficient egg supply. Until a months ago one
could buy eggs in plenty at the restau-
rants and hotels that the stranger better of
than the regularly domiciled citizen. This however
has been changed. There is very sugar. sacca-
re is served with coffee tea and chocolate in the cafes
hotels, restaurants and in the homes sugar
IS on hand is used for cooking purposes
Southern fruits are rarely sean on tha taAL~ .-6
their prices very high Meats are very dear and
the allowance for each Individual small The fish
supply is abundant. and Ash steaks fish roasts hSh
croquettes, fish salads, fish goulashes fish balls fish
dumpngs, fish frtters fish flakes fish normal take
great part in every restaurant bof-fare Fish food
in Germany has acquired through war a more
varied list OF DISCUSSES than had or ever win
have.
More, and greater variety Of vegetables hrn eaten
In Germany today than in pre-war days. Tomatoes
cooked In various and stuffed, become pou-
ular Onions, carrots, beets, turnips mushrooms
beans peas, potatoes are each cons,dsrad
separately a basis for a substantial meal Home
grown fruits are plentiful prices moderately
hsh GREAT Quantities Of plu1ns apples gooseberres
cherries, blueberres. and were brought to
market this year BREAD fish, fu1t, vegetables.
form substantial satisfactory and strengthening
diet. ~
Thus. while tho German war table rs updentah,v q
Spartan one, 1T is not table Those who
have subssted its modest simple Offerings for
tue last year ana hair are still plump, healthy and
VIGOROUS Inc people miss milk butter, cakes
buildings, jams and preserves, ham. sausases bacon
Coffee tea chocolate sugar sadly but after an the
feature of the table hardest to bear is its
monotony.
q Those who fare best Germany are the soldiers
They not permitted anything at the
front. Their stews strong, and contain a goodly
portion of meat. They have butter, eggs and sweet
dishes The soldier fare probably has suffered little
deterioration the beginning of the war The
people of this preferential Of the
soldiers for they recognize that sacrifices that the
soldiers making much greater than those
sacrifices made back home