The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-05-10
CAMPAIGN
FOR COTTAGE CHEESE
Department of Agriculture Sends Work
ers to Every State to Encourage
Production and Use of Meat
Substitute.

To encourage the use, as we'll as the
making, of cottage cheese-a cheap and
palatable substitute for meat-the Unit
ed States department of agriculture has
launched campaign in which nearly q
hundred field workers will take part and
which is to carry to every state in the
union this lesson;
Cottage cheese is made from skim
mlk-now largely wasted or fed to ami.
mails. A pound of cottage cheese has the
same food value as pound of meat,
Make cottage cheese, and thus put to
valuable use wasted skim milk. Eat
cottage cheese; save the meat for our
soldiers and the allies
Three OF the big divisions Of the de-
| paftment Of agriculture are working in
the campaign which also has the CO.
operation Of the United States food nd
ministration.
NE bureau of animal industry,
thr s. dairy division, is sending AZ
wg airy agents, to as many states
to ss..Au.atc the making of cottage
cheese on farms and also to cooperate
with urban demonstration agents in en-
couragng the use of cottage cheese on
city tables. The state relations service
has sent party of women home demon
stration agents to various cities to dem
onstrate many new and attractive cot
tage cheese dishes originated in Uncle
SANS food laboratories in Washington
From Cleveland the home demonstra-
ton workers will 60 separately to the
other cities and towns to repeat their
work. The bureau Of markets, mean
while is sending agents to the cities Wis
tied by the home demonstration cam
paign The markets men are getting |
in touch with wholesale and retail dis I
trihutors OF cottage cheese. Twenty two /
men also are sent put by the dairy di-
vision to encourage the production and /
improve the quality of cottage cheese /
produced in creameries and milk plants
Cottage Cheese Real Food.
The trouble about cottage cheese, ac-
cording TO officials OF the department,
has been that housewives somehow have
got the impression that it is merely a
relish or the material for a salad, and
not what it is-a real staple food. One
big object OF the campaign is to dispel
this impression-to convince housewives
that cottage cheese is not merely suit
able for sandwich filling, but is pal
atahle and nutritious food that can be {
made to serve as the basis OF sustenanee
for even hard, outdoor workers Fur. !
-hermore, cottage cheese can be served {
N many other WAYS besides the white
paste form with which most people are {
familiar.
Cheese Dishes Prove 1t. !
To prove this, a luncheon was given
ecently in the department Of agriculture I
It Washington and those who attended 9
we're literally astounded by the variety !,
# new and unexpected ways in which
ottage cheese was served. From soup :
o nuts" cottage cheese was prominently
n the menu. There were cottage cheese '
CUP, cottage cheese sausage, cottage u
heese salad, cottage cheese tarts, honey 7
hey, and whey punch. Recipes for the !
laking of these and other dishes are to :
e made available by the home demon u
tration workers to every housewife who P
esres them. G.
There is even a cottage cheese song. Il
is not made from cottage cheese, but
celebrates its virtues. The AZ women e
no are going into Al states sang it at
re cottage cheese luncheon. One stanza
ms this way:
body see body making cottage 4,
cheese, lIf
ry it, eat it, talk it, preach it, boost it, re
If you please. al
Te are out to save skim milk and make 10
it into cheese, m
ct Uncle Sammie have the meat-And
send it DER the seas. 81
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