Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-11-09
PANHAAS IN PLACE
OF MEATS SAVING
Rock Island Citizen Comes Forward
With Suggestion TO Reduce Cost
0f Living.
OLD PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH DISH
Mr.. CoulstOn Sends Back 70 Earll
Home for Recipe for Guidance
OF People Here.
BY +. V. Collision.
Secretary Rock Island Stove compan


The price Of meat is high and going
higher We are asked by our govern
ment TO reduce our consumption Of
meats. OF beef, pork and mutton, and
also OF wheat. and every loyal and pat
riotic man and woman is doing It and
thinking Of substitutes that can be
used that are corresponding health
ful and nutritious. Not much is said
70 US about substitutes or meat except
that we use poultry. fish and eggs,
which foods under this special notice
have taken special jumps in price. AS
substitutes for wheat We are advised
10 use corn meal. buCkwheat, rye -four,
etc.
The great question is how Butchers
continue 20 offer meats as before. same
cuts and same quantities, the only diff
ference being higher prices Bakers
continue 10 supply bread as before.
wheat bread made from white -four
with no mixture OF any proportion Of
any substitute the only difference
being a higher price
Paying higher prices Is not C0nser-
walton Workmen push tor higher
wages and business men aim for larg-
or margins OF profit and 10 some extent
they both succeed and they pay these
! higher prices for meats and Tor bread
perhaps With grumbling, but they
have the whereRithal 10 pay and they
do pay and buy these staple foods
which we are asked to conserve, about
as before. A great many feel that be-
cause they are paying more money for
these foods they are somehow helping
the country but that is entirely wrong
The country, or the progress of the
war, or the army or anything what
ever outside OF individual interests are
not helped by paying higher prices
The only way 10 really practice con
seryation is to use smaller quantities
OF meats and VIII foods and larger
quantities Of mer substitutes and OF
corn. huckwheat. tie Rut how? What
butchers and bakers are offering sub
stitutes to our people Of whom the
great majority. as is well known, must
get their food supplies from the butch
or. baker and grocer? And how are
corn and buckwheat to be used instead
OF wheat ? What baker is offering corn
bread? The great majority of ouI
people have not baked their own wheat
bread. How. then. shall they be able
to make their own corn bread?
Is Bayarian Idea.
Really something is needed to'makt
practically possible Tor the aver
age citizen 10 cut down on meats ant
wheat and use more corn buckwheat
etc. Are there any food combinations
that I'll this need?
There is one. and. cu-iously enough
II is an old German, or more properly
speaking Bavarian. idea. Those emf
grants who came 10 America follow
ing William Penn and up 10 the Reyo
lutionary war, who came 60 this new
country for religious peace and who's,
descendants form that sturdy body o
people known as Pennsylvania Dutch
"a corruption of Pennsylvania DeutsCh
brought this idea with them aud il hat
for generations formed one Of tn
staple articles OF diet for that sturd'
race. Thousands upon thousands o
sturdy Youngsters have grown M ani
waXcd strong upon it and whercyC
YOU happen to run across one Of thcsl
sons Of Pennsylvania, away from hi
native state, you can always rouse hi
interest and cause his mouth to waite
hy mention Of this food called panhsa
pronounced pon-hawsl in the German
dialect and called scrapple in the Eng
fish. But let II be said IL YOU hav
IN some New York restaurant some
thing called philadelphia scrapple
II was not by any means the real thins
SO thoroughly convinced am tina
this food provides at once a solution
Of the cost of living problem. the re
duction of meat consumption problem
the saving Of wheat problem and tn
problem of using more corn and buck
wheat, that | have sent back to my ma