The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-14
WOMEN'S WORK DURING YEAR
Miss Sprague Tells What Con- necticut Women Did in Food
 Administrations First Year.
By Miss M. E. Sprague, Home Eco.
 monies Director In Connecticut for United States Food ,a Administration.

OOO,OUO pOulluSJ 4dISSSl SluSIS HO11t1A this year, S7,O0O,O0O pounds.
 Pork exports, ordinary monthly rate, 5O,O0O,O00 pounds; largest month this year, 3OS, 100000 pounds.
 Price of flour (Minneapolis), one year ago, S1675 a barrel wholesale present price, $9S0 a barrel.
 Price margin between farmers wheat and flour made from it, one year ago difference, $5.6S; present diff. ference, 64 cents.
 All who have observed wheatless and meatEess days may feel justly proud to have contributed to the above splendid record.
 Food Saving In the Army.
 Often the report is spread broadcast that there is great waste in our camps This is emphatically denied. A food conservation officer has been appoint ed for each camp, and every effort is made to eliminate waste. They arc saving more flour than civilians. The soldier in the army is eating 19 pounds of flour less a year than the civilian is asked to use.
 Bread of the Allies. Many have offered as an excuse fol not giving up wheat that they saw nc reason why the Allies could not ust substitutes.
 The Allies do. No one receive: wheat bread except the soldiers, ant surely no one begrudges them theil wheat loaf
 France, England and Italy all hav' flour which Is S1 per cent. wheat OK traction" while ours has but "A pc cent Bread made of higher extraction than S1 per cent. is quite likely t' cause malnutrition.
 Canning Without Sugar.
 Fruit juices and fruits for dessert may be very successfully canned with out sugar If the cold pack method O canning is used cook the product 8 minutes.
 Make no jellies, marmalades ant | jams except for children, invalids o soldiers. Fruits put up without suga may be e~combined later and made int marmalade if there is an increases sugar supply.
 Do not make sweet pickles nor pre- serve watermelon rind.
 Use half sugar and half syrup Il making fruits and jellies. If a suga syrup is used for canning make it o one part sugar and four parts water.
 Sugar Saving Desserts.
 Custards, junkets, gelatin, dessert: sponges, frozen dishes, steamed cerea or tapioca buildings, fresh fruits wit syrup.
 Satisfactory results for the abov may be obtained by substituting a follows: In place of sugar use cup c honey or one and two-thirds to tw cups of corn syrup. Every cup c syrup or honey furnished one-quarte cup of liquid, therefore for every cl of syrup or honey reduce the origins amount of liquid in the recipe en' ; fourth cup.
 Frozen custard.
 pint milk IF teaspoons corr 1 egg starch
 1 cup corn syrup or IF teaspoons co
 or honey or suffi- milk or water
 cent maple syrup 11s teaspoons vs
 to sweeten to nilla taste l-S teaspoon salt Scald milk and add cornstarch mike with the cold water or milk. Cook th mixture over hot water 15 minutes . Add the egg slightly beaten and coo = the mixture five minutes Add the cor syrup and salt, stir well, strain an cool. Add vanilla and freeze as all ice cream.-Jessie A. Boys. Maple Mousse. pint whipping IF cups map
 cream syrup Is teaspoon salt Beat cream until thick. Beat in T . syrup and add salt Pour mixture int mold. Pack in equal parts of ice ar : salt and allow to stand three hours
 Jessie A. Boys. Grape Sherbet. | 1 teaspoon gelatin 1 cup corn syrup tablespoon cold F cup water water A cup grape juic Soak gelatin in a tablespoon of co water for five minutes and dissolve e in the boiling syrup and water. L
 the mixture cool, add grape juice ar f freeze. This recipe makes one quart I Jessie A. Boys.
 a Picnic Sandwiches. It is comparatively easy to serve p
 triotic hot meals in the home, but f sandwiches form the basis for picn = lunch and they are usually some COT . bination of bread and meat it is oftt . most perplexing to know what to pa' n up for the weekend camping trip al }. have them Mheatless and meatless.
 Try Brown Bread. Q cups corn meal teaspoons ba :, 1 cup rice flour ing powder cup ground rolled E teaspoon soda II oats teaspoon salt o i cup barley flour eggs
 cups milk 7s cup molasses
 Use with this bread the followil filings" Apple, thinly sliced al $ mixed with chopped nuts and sali dressing; sliced tomatoes and crea ,1 cheese, eggs boiled hard and mix 2 with thick cream sauce, sliced cucul is Der and tomatoes well seasoned.