Charlevoix county herald., 1918-10-18
Keep Thin,
Win War Rules
Twelve New Food Orders Go
Into Effect, Next Monday.

The gospel of the clean plate and the
lean, tit American will become some
what more generally observed after
Oct. Il, when twelve new orders by
MIR. Hoover 90 into effect.
These orders apply only to public
eating houses, and are aimed at in
creasing our food shipments to the al
lies. A new appeal is made to the
housewife and various suggestions, not
included in the orders, are given out
by the food administration. The twelve
commandments follow:
1.-No public eating place shall serve
or permit to be served any bread or
other bakery product which does not
contain at least 20 per cent of wheat
flour substitutes, nor shall it serve
more than two ounces of this bread or
more than four ounces of other bread.
Sandwiches or bread served at board
ing camps and rye bread containing so
per cent or more of pure rye flour are
excepted.
2.-No public eating place shall serve
or permit to be served bread or toast
as garniture or under meat.
3.-No public eating place shall allow
any bread to be brought to the table
until after the first course is served.
4.-No public eating place shall serve
or permit to be served to one patron at
any one meal more than one kind of
meat. For the purpose of this rule,
meat shall be considered as including
beef, mutton, pork, poultry, and any
by products thereof.
5.-No public eating place shall serve
or permit to be served any bacon as
garniture.
6.-No public eating place shall serve
or permit to be served to any one per-
son at any one meal more than one
half ounce of butter.
mo public eating place shall serve
or permit to be served to any one per-
son at any one meal more than one
half ounce of cheddar, commonly called
american cneeSe.
S.-No public eating place shall use
or permit the use of the sugar bowl on
the table or lunch counter. Nor shall
any public eating place serve sugar or
permit it to be served unless the guest
so requests and in no event shall the
amount served to any one person at
any one meal exceed one teaspoonful
or its equivalent.
9.-No public eating place shall use
or permit the use of an amount of
sugar in excess of two pounds for
every ninty meals served, including all
uses OF sugar on the table and in cook
ing, excepting such sugar as may be
allotted by the federal food administra-
tors to hotels holding bakery license.
No sugar allotted for this special baking
purpose shall be used for any other
purpose.
1O.-No public eating place shall burn
any food or permit any food to be
burned and all waste shall be saved to
feed animals or reduced to obtain fats.
11.-No public eating place shall dis
play or permit TO be displayed food on
its premises in any such manner as may
cause its deterioration so that it cannot
be used for human consumption.
12.-No public eating place shall serve
or permit to be served what is known
as double cream or cream de luxe. and.
in any event, no cream containing over
20 Per cent of butter fat shall be served
Elimination of all general bills of fare
is recommended, as the great variety of
dishes listed necessitates large quanti-
ties OF meat and other foods which are
liable to spoil. The suggestion is also
made that names of dishes on menu
cards be printed in plain English, actu-
ally describing the food, so patrons
may know exactly what they are order
ting. A standard small menu card is
recommended to help save thousands
of tons of paper.
Hotels and restaurants are also re-
quested to reduce their use of china,
linen, and silver as much as possible in
order to help save labor.
No cakes with icings made from cane
or beet sugar will be served, and eat
ing places will economize on coffee.
Rigid economy in use of ice is demand
ed.