The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-08
SHE GOES RIGHT INTO HOMES
TO TEACH WAR FOOD TRICKS

Mary T., sutherland, Washington
state leader In home demonstration
work. under the control OF the fed
eral food administration. used to spc.
cialixe In salads. She could make 20
different salads In two hours. talking
all the time she worked To feminine
audience that gaspcd with admlra
ton.
In those days Miss Sutherland car
ricd a steamer trunk fun OF iA.carat
equipment
Hut the salad days are over for
all home economics demonstrators
wednesday Miss sutherland went
into the simple little home OF Mrs.
G. T. hloombcfg az 1853 lSth ave
on the edge Of the city To talk to a
dozen women with half dozen chill.
drcn and two dozen army socks
about making wheatless. BUTTERFLIES.
sugarless foods that are just as
good.
Built for Service
She walked ten blocks. aitho the
government would have paid her
taxi hill. and carried with her a fire.
less cooker. five pounds of pamphlets
and small wicker ratchci filled with
ingredients when she got there she
used what utensils she found In the
neat but plain little kitchen which
was built for cooks. not looks.
While the women worked at sock \
and kept the children atlli and took
notes. Miss Sutherland beat up a
sponge cake that she called wheat.
less. BUTTERFLIES sugarlesa."
She gave the recipe To all the won
en- and pointed out It's pitfalls while
she beat up the batter with slen.
der but vigorous arm che was put.
ting them Wise to the strong points
and the faillng~ OF substitute flours
telling them which To use In what
and why.
Can Get Recipes
The sponge cake only takes two
egsz. half a cup of sugar, no butter.
and a cup OF rice flour Miss guth
erlsnd viii give out the rccip. FOR a,
ana many more war dishes at her
headquarters. aso county.city build.
Ing
Miss Sutherland. who has worked
az home economics demonstrating
long enough to realize that every
woman she talks 20 can put her wise
10 one more trick OF the trade. has a
string Of college degrees three deep
after her name. She Is an A. II. and
twice II. 3. and II she wants To- To
an NJ. a. all she has 10 do IL say
the word and write n simple thesis
that could be don. in her spare mo.
mcnts. But right now she Isn't In.
tcros,ed In degrees. except degrees Of
war enthusiasm.
Despite her highly cultivated In
teiiigcncs she IL aS simpi. and as
homciy In her instruction as a cook
OF the civil war period
The best way 10 efcan out bowl
thoroly Is with ciasn finger" she
declared. And the main thing IN
cooking Is TO cnJov what you're
doing
Fights on Fctafo~.
While she talked above ia. whir
% Dover cgg bea,er. Miss Suthrr-
land hoped from potatoes to eggs
and back again. As her Interested
audience OF one dozen piled her with
questions. Some OF the high lights
In her answers read like this.
Germany is fighting this war on
potatoes. During tho last year they
used 49, quarts per capita and we
used 35"
Conditions In Seattle dalrics are
fine
''If meat went up cen, In France
all the housewives would get togrth
er and find cut why before they paid
Il. American women ought 10 use the
system"
"one cup OF syrup is threc-fifths
as sweet aS sugar"
Women are going 10 bc poised
this year. no matter what happens
Were not going to be panicky"
There should be no meat In the
home until there are at least three
quarts of milk"
New Idea Now
The housewife has the most won.
derfui profession In the world. and
II makes mo ili when see women
voters Obliged TO sign themselves.
'Housewife-no occupation
Don't let anything take the place
Of butter with growing children"
Miss Sutherland specialix.s In talk
ing to women in their own homes.
She believes that II the best way to
reach them. No more high IA.
iut.n'" domestic science. she says.