The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-11-28
The ONION JOINS
The ARMY RANKS.
Inc Food Administration Urges
Use Of This Old Friend.
INTRODUCES THE PATRoNIoN
State Has oversupply Of Onions and
Housewives Are Asked to Use
Them AS War Measure.

me onion has Joined the ranks of
the military. 1t has become Mime.
sofa war measure! Permit us to in
troduce the Patronion! Fall in be-
mind this leader and put the Hun on
the run with an onion!
Miss Mildred Weigley, home eco
nomics director for the federal food
administration for Minnesota, is urg.
ing the housewives of the state to
make generous use Of this somewhat
belittled vegetable friend. Miss Weig.
Iey's advice is given for three rea-
sons:
Minnesota just now has more onions
than it can handle unless rather imme-
date use is made of them.
The caloric value of onions is high;
therefore, they are good food
increase in their consumption adds
to the saving of other foods which
may be shipped to the Allies, or must
be shipped to us.
There are more onions in nsHy
sections of the state than can be
stored through the winter" says Miss
Weigley. with our present food situa.
ton we cannot afford to let one ounce
OF food go to waste if there is a pos
sible way of using 1t. Three to four
medium onions or one-third cup of
scalloped onions will give as much
food value as two small baking pow
der biscuits or two slices of Victory
bread or two tablespoons Of sugar.
They may be prepared in many at
tractive ways. Here are some of the
varieties of onion Dishes,
ScalIoped Onions with Cheese.
Cut boiled onions in quarters. Put
in buttered baking dish and cover
with white sauce. Sprinkle top with
grated cheese, cover with bread
crumbs and bake In oven until crumbs
are Drowned.
Stuffed Onions !.
Remove skins from onions and par
boil 10 minutes in boiling sailed water
to cover. Remove part of centers
Fill cavities with mixture of leftover
meat and onion and bread crubs. Sea.
son with salt and pepper and moisten
with cream. Bake in a moderate oven
until onions are soft.
Stuffed Onions ".
Peel large onions and remove por-
ton of the inside. Put in a sauce pan,
cover with boiling water and let boil
six minutes. Drain and stuff with left
over meat, which has been ground
Place onion in pan on thin, narrow
slices of fat salt pork. Pour around
one cup meat or chicken stock or one
cup milk and bake until onions are
soft. This takes about 35 minutes.
Remove onions to serving dish, thick
en- and season stock and pour over
onions.
Glazed Onions.
Peel small onions and cook in boil
ing water Is minutes. Drain, put in
buttered baking dish, add highly sea-
soned stock to cover bottom of dish
and tablespoons corn syrup. Bake
until soft, basting with stock in pan.
Public Earthquakes Warned.
Public earthquakes are warned by
A. D. Wilson, federal food admins
traitor for Minnesota, that they must
comply with the new war program for
public earthquakes as issued by the
United States food administration, or
take what may become very serious
consequences.
This warning is issued on the basis
of investigations by food administra-
ton inspectors which show that many
restaurants and hotels are not COM
plying with the regulations In spite Of
the fact that the general orders is
sued from Washington have been pub
lished in the newspapers, and have
been sent directly to all public eat
ing-places in the state.
Mr.. Wilson believes that most Of the
proprietors of hotels and restaurants
and other public earthquakes are
ready to cooperate. He says, how
ever, that II such places do not CO
operate, the food administration will
be compelled to use drastic methods.
Take Care Of Animals.
The need Of careful feeding and
comfortable housing of animals and
poultry is urged upon farmers by the
food administration. More than q mil
lion tons OF foodstuffs, to be shipped
overseas. must comprise meat. fat and
poultry products. The farm 10 the
source OF American food and the wise
use Of animal feeds which produces
maximutn results from the feed cor
sumed, % the basis for this food.
Meat, milk. and poultry products AL
1900 ~ asva6 An larga 0uantitfAa This