The Dermott news., 1917-07-05
USE WHOLE WHEAT
 FLOUR ITS BETTER
Seventy Million Bushels of Wheat Can Be Saved Each Year By Using
 the Whole Wheat Grain.
By Ruth A. Peck. Head of Department of Home Economics. Univer-
 Sity of Arkansas

By Ruth A. Peck, Head of Department
 of Home Economies. univer-
 sity of Arkansas.
 Our soldiers must have bread. The entire world is hungry and has been depending upon America's wheat crop which now proves 10 be far below the average. Something must be done. Patriotic mothers can relieve the sit nation by asking for and using only flour made from the entire wheat grain. It has been estimated that the utilization of the entire wheat gran instead of three-fourths of the grain commonly used in the manufacture O. white four will save 70 million bush els of wheat annually in the United States. Do your bit. II you can not buy the whole wheat flour. make it. The grain can easily he prepared.
 Directions For Making Entire Wheat
 Flour At Home.
 Look over the wheat and remove any chan or foreign material which nay be present. Grind the wheat in home" mill If this mill cannot be obtained from one of your home mer' chants 1t can be secured from any large mail order house. Any type Of mill from the small one turned by hand to the large one run by a motor will do. Put the wheat through the mill several times until it is of the desired fneness The product should be of a somewhat coarser grade of flour than the sifted. puyerized, bleached product to which We have been accustomed. However. the coarse meal-like four produces very pala- table and wholesome bread.
 Directions For Making Entire Wheat
 Bread.
 One cake of yeast.
 (Dry yeast for overnight proceSsl.
 Compressed for quick processD.
 One pint of water.
 Three tablespoons of brown sugar.
 (Two tablespoons molasses if de siredl.
 One tablespoon salt.
 One tablespoon shortening.
 Sufficient flour to make batter.
 Dissolve the yeast cake and sugar (and molaSses if usedl in one cup Of warm water Let stand for fifteen minutes Melt the shortening in one cup of hot water Add the salt and let stand until the liquid is lukewarm. Next add sufficient entire wheat flour to make batter. If dry yeast IS used let the mixture rise over night; If the compressed yeast is employed, let it rise until il is quite light. Next pour the batter into nest of entire wheat flour containing one cup of luke warm water Fold mixture carefully at first so as to fill the bubbles or gas with the flour as it is being added Continue to work in the entire wheat flour until sufficient has been adde1 to make dough. Next knead the bread (White flour. corn starch. rice flour. etc. are better to use on the bread board than the whole wheat flour to prevent the dough from stick ing). Let the dough rise until it has doubled in size. then knead and let
  in a moderate oven for seventy to eighty minutes.
 Variations in Whole Wheat Bread.
 Corn meal makes an excellent ad- dition to the entire wheat loaf The corn meal may be added in a dry state or scalded and allowed 10 cool until 1t Is lukewarm before adding to the mixture. The proportion of one and one-half to two cups of corn meal may be added to above recipe when the batter is made into a dough.
 Another combination which is palat. able consists Of adding cottonseed meal. one and one-half cups to this general recipe. Soy bean flour may te added in the same proportion as the cottonseed meal Rice flour may also be substituted for some of the wheat four one and onehalf cups of rice four to the proportions given in the foregoing recipe, The boiled rice may also be added. one cup 10 the recipe
 These substitutes may be added with the wheat four to the batter