The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1918-11-07

food administration. More than a
million tons of the food stuffs, to be
shipped overseas, must comprise
meat, fats, and poultry products. The
farms the source of American food
and the wise use of animal feeds
which produces maximum results
from the food consumed, is the basis
for this food. Meat, milk, and poultry
products all must be saved in large
quantities this year.
Keep a saving shelf in your pantry.
have jar for fats-rinds of bacon,
outside cuttings of other meat which
may not be cooked; add also the oils
from cannod fish, and all bits which
may go into the making of fats for
government use. Keep another jar
for fruit pits. They make gas masks.
Even the time honored prune has
come to the exalted position of harb-
oring stone which when placed with
some two or three hundred other
prune stones may protect one boy
against the deadliest of German
poison gas. 1t takes 200 peach pits
for one mask. Every soldier takes
two masks into action. Figure for
yourself how many pits will be neces-
sary when we have five million men
in action. Pits of apricots, olives,
dates, cherries, plums are just as
good. Seven pounds of the shells of
Brazil and hickory nuts, and walnuts
and butternuts will make another
mask. No matter how small the
amount your contribution may be,
send it. Every little bit helps. Be an
ammunition worker on the home line
of defense. 49,
Fall without pumpkin pie would be
a real blow to the average American
household. Therefore, the conserva-
ton cooks of the food administration
have evolved a conservation pumpkin
pie for the patriotic cooks in the in
dividual kitchens. This is the way it
is made:
cups pumpkins, cooked and
strained.
II cup. molasses or sorghum.
l teaspoon cinnamon.
u teaspoon ginger.
u teaspoon salt.
eggs.
2 cups milk. ... 49,.
Mix the pumpkin with the molasses
and seasoning. Add the beaten eggs
and milk and bake in pie plate lined
with conservation crust made from
1 ~ cups wheat or rye flour, u cup
barley or corn flour, II teaspoon salt,
Il to u cup fat. lis
Add water to make stiff dough,
remembering that wheat substitutes
need little more water than all
wheat -four. ..
The food administration has increas-
ed the household allowance of sugar
from two pounds to three pounds per
person per month with the same ra-
ton to public eating places from No
vember l.. The new regulations also
permit the purchase of the family's
whole monthly allowance at one time
The increase in sugar is due to the
rapid manufacture of the new crop
of beet sugar in the west and the
new crop of Louisiana can sugar in
the south. Freer railway transporta-
ton conditions added to the increase
also and the saving due to patriotic
conservation on the part of the citi-
zens during the past four months.
The new supply justifes and makes
possible the freer use of the apple,
cranberry and grapefruit and the
fruit canned during the summer with
out sugar.
The food patriots of the United
States are to have the opportunity
this year of being hosts at the great
est Thanksgiving family party they
ever have entertained. These loyal
Americans will eat at common table
with 12O,OO0,0OO Allies.