Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-23

fashioned iron pot clamor for atten-
ton. BY their help we can convert
the foolishly despised cheaper cuts of
meat into the most appetizing and
nourishing of stews. potroasts, or
meat-bean combinations.
We can stalk through a mass of
high school ologies. but we cannot
make a bowl of gravy worthy of the
name!
With hogs going as high as SIS
hundred on the hoof, ham and beans
and beans and bacon fly far out of the
reach of many, but shoulder and
round, if we will only get back to
first principles, are still available.
The Indians utilized wild rice. still
to be found in the regions around the
Great Lakes.
Professor jerks, quoted by Wiley
and Rines, advocates the cultivation
of wild rice on large scale by the
whites as a valuable addition to the
food supply of the country.
Whether we cultivate wild rice or
MOTIVE have at hand in immense guam
titles natural brown rice, which is just
as good a food as whole corn, whole
wheat, whole barley or whole rye.
Doubtless if they had not been
driven by necessity the Russians, Ger
mans, and French would not have re-
turned to these whole grains during
the past two years. The fact that
| they have returned to them is signifi-
cant to us, or should be. AS far as
food economy is concerned we are
actually at war.
Even the Indians themselves learned
to appreciate such dish as wild rice
only through the pressure of the
whites who forced them more and
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| Great Lakes, thus cutting them off
| from the food resources so carefully
cultivated by them.
History not only threatens to re-
peat itself, it is repeating itself.
In the early settlement of the west
and northwest wild rice made possible
the survival of the pioneer movements
of American civilization.
Henry in 1916 and Carver in 1875,
as recorded in the American Educa-
tional Alliance Publication, THE
United States. Its Beginnings, Prog
| ress and Modern Developments" re-
| ferred to the fact that the great ex-
petitions to the rivers of the west
and the preservation of the infant
colonies beyond the settled east would
not have been possible without wild
! rice.
Yet wild rice as delicious food
| does not compare with natural brown
fIce' ol WHICH ullllonS OF DuSnelS are
annually spoiled by the rice millers of
the United States in their efforts to
prepare the denatured white head
! rice now on the market.
The fallacious arguments that corn
| and rice are milled to their present
degree of refinement so that they
will keep" is put to shame not only
| by the methods of the Indians in keep
ing these grains, but by other facts.
The Indians stored and preserved
their grains in pits, trenches and
cribs. The modern crib is an Indian
invention.
Whole corn and whole rice will
keep indefinitely if the protecting
| husk of the corn and rice are allowed
to remain on the grains until they
are ready to be ground.
1t is only when the grains are taken
out of their overcoats and ground that
they refuse to keep. Even when
ground they will keep from October
to May in cool climates. Their spoil
months. Throughout May. June, July,
| August and September they should
| be ground as needed. The fact that
| they will keep perfectly for a full
month after being ground even in the
hottest weather affords ample oppor-
tunity to market them.
We bake our bread as needed. We
roast our coffee as needed. and our
distribution of milk from day to day
adds the simplest kind of evidence of
the feasibility of preparing whole
grains, not year or two in advance
of their consumption as is now done,
but as the requirements of the peo-
| pie demand them.
These, then, are some of the sug-
gestions which our food shortage ex-
perience makes for the benefit of the
| future. Others are to follow.