Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-06-10
WHEAT FLOUR SUBSTITUTES.

The state food administration has
! just issued a circular letter directing
attention to the practice of certain UNI
| sc1upulous manufacturers who are
! placing laundry starch upon the mar
! ket as fit for human consumption. As
some of this starch has been found
| on sale in Georgia, a note of warning
| is sounded by the authorities. Such
| starch contains no elements of nutri-
/ ton and is unfit for human consump-
I ton, being, considered deleterious to
health as we'll.
| J. ]. Stream, chief of the coarse
grain division of the United States
food administration, referring to the
practice of selling laundry starch as
a food product, says "This commodity
is technically known as pearl starch,
is used in laundries and textile indus
tries and it was determined by the de-
partment of agriculture some time ago
that it is unfit for human consumption
and deleterious to health" Under re-
cent rulings of the food administra-
ton no starch of any kind may be sold
in the United States for domestic use
or export purposes, branded as corn
-four, or with any other name in which
the words corn and flour appear This
ruling, of course, does not not apply
to edible corn starch produced and
marketed as such by reputable starch
manufacturers and sold by retailers
in the ordinary course of trade
This directs attention to the num-
erous wheat -four substitutes now in
sale in this country.
There are now on sale in Americas,
as we'll as elsewhere in Georgia, va
rious substitute flours, including pea
nut flour, rice flour, graham flour and
buckwheat, all of them more or less
new institutions to the average house
wife in this section All Of them, how
ever, are being give ma trial, and it is
probable several of these very nu
tritious substitutes for wheat -four
will find permanent place upon the
list of household commodities, dis
placing to this extent wheat products,
without seriously interfering with the
quality of the bread served upon the
family table.
One grocer here has already dis
posed of several shipments of peanut
-four, which is reported as giving uni
versal satisfaction, although producing
slightly darker bread than the whole
wheat loaf This peanut -four is of
sweetish taste, and the negroes here
! eat it readily before cooking, fire.
quently without seasoning of any kind,
and apparently with great relish Mix.
ed with other cereals, or wheat flour,
peanut bread" as it is called is most
appetizing and promises to come into
general use before many months, un-
less the war ends and the necessity
! for exporting huge quantities of wheat
to Europe is done away with.
However, of all the wheat -four sub
stitutes yet tried out in this section, it
is probable rice flour will in the end
! prove most popular This material
| produces a snow white loaf, even
lighter and altogether as palatable as
wheat flour biscuit, when mixed with
small quantity of this latter mate
rial Probably because of its color, rice
flour will grow in popularity, and this
! added to the fact that it is considera-
, bly, cheaper than wheat -four, promises
to make it ere long a standard article
! of diet upon Georgia dining tables.
There is, however, a considerable
period of experimentation ahead, and