Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-07-31
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! HOME DEMONSTRATION NOTES
By Jessie P. Hastings.

BY Jessie P. Hastings. :
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Do a maximum of canning with a
minimum of sugar.
With the food administration cutting
down on our monthly supply of sugar
every week or so, the sugar situation
is assuming alarming prospects and is
bsorbing our undivided attention.
Don't forget that it is easy to can up
your fruits and juices without par
ticle Of sugar. Consult your canning
bulletins for these directions and if
you have not canning bulletin, call
the office or come in and one will be
given to you.
There is not exactly a sugar famine
and there will be sugar for canning
and preserving, but the supply is lin
tied and it is necessary that all waste
be prevented and that we use corn
syrup, molasses and honey in our bak-
ing and in our general cooking to a
great extent Now don't think that
you cannot make good things with
these sugar substitutes, because you
can. For instance, here's little re-
cipe for the famous Brownies" which
are being made now throughout the
city Of Chicago from those huge truck
demonstration kitchens which are be-
ing sent through the city. We have
been demonstrating these Brownies
and they are proving very popular
over the county the last week. Here's
the recipe. Try it out. 1t is sugarless,
BUTTERFLIES, wheatless, eggless and
milkless.
| Three-fourths cup Of molasses. If
molasses is strong and bitter, use "
molasses and " corn syrup.
One-half cup of water, 1-3 cup of
corn oil or lard. a teaspoon ground
cloves, n teaspoon ground cinnamon,
a teaspoon ground nutmeg, cup
seedless raisins. Nuts can be added if
desired.
Boil the above two or three minutes,
stirring constantly. Just before re-
moving from the fire, stir in teaspoon
of soda dissolved in little warm
water. Let the mixture cool and add
one cup of barley -four, one cup Of rice
-four. Rye can be used in place OF
barley, One level teaspoon of baking
powder sifted with the rice and barley
or rye. Drop on creased pan, one
in moderately hot oven.
You will find these lovely to give the
children.
Don't forget what said last week
about the fruit feathers" which con-
sist of the fruit paste dried on a
creased platter or pan.
The biggest thing the Iowa women
can do this summer to help win the
war is to save on our household sugar.
1t is crime to waste sugar at this
time and this fact should be impressed
on every housewife, whose influence is
earnestly solicited by the food admin
istration in it's campaign to interest
and convince the women of Iowa that
they now have an opportunity to per-
form a war service of highest charac-
ter
Our restaurants and hotels are max
L ing big sacrifices. Our manufacturers
of candy and soft drinks have been re-
duced to so per cent of their normal
sugar supply, which is barely enabling
them to avoid closing, They are max
ing SO per cent sacrifice. Surely the
housewife of Iowa will renew her Wig
lance and her devotion to the cause
Of the food administration in the light
of this example Of our business men.
One restaurant man alone is saving
one hundred pounds Of sugar a month
and will be saving more this next
month by the use Of syrups,.~ while
one grocer reports marked saving of
sugar during month Of July. Another
grocer reports no saving at all. His
sugar sales have been about as usual,
though in small amount. This matter
is up to your own consciences. No
one has ever told you you cannot buy
two pounds of sugar whenever you
want to, but when the government re-
pounds per person a month, surely
your conscience would give you an
awful prick.
This thing of making cakes and
lemonades and putting in our old time
amounts of "cupful of sugar. certain
ly cannot be done on two pounds of
sugar a Month per person. Stop and
think. Do you want to win this war
Or are you willing to kill the longing
OF that sweet tooth and help our sixty
thousand Iowa boys to have the nee
essary allowance of sugar that is
needed to keep them in fit condition.
Perhaps we had better do with the
sweet tooth as one of the cartoons in
Chicago paper suggests. Tie string
to it. Tie brick to the string and
hurl the brick at the kaiser.
Last week letters were sent out
over the county to the township chair
men Of the Council of Defense and to
the chairmen of the Women's Bureau
suggesting that they get the women Of
their township together to plan sim
pier meals for threshers, without
wheat and sugar. Also to try and ar
range the work SO that the farm
women, many of them now doing home
work as well as mans work on the
farm, will have it easier this year. If
the men could conveniently go home
for their supers, how much ester
would be the life of the women during
the threshing time. In many locali-
ties the custom has been to serve big