Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1918-06-05
MEASUREMENTS OF SUBSTITUTES
EQUAL TO ONE CUP OF WHEAT
ELOUR.

1uCuJo 3 .
Barley, 3-S cups; Buckwheat, -
cup; Corn Flour, scant l cup; corr
meal (coarse) 7-s cup; corn meal
(fine) scant 1 cup; peanut -four
scant cup; cornstarch, 3-4 cup; pc
tato -four, ga cup; rice -four, A7-8 cup
rolled oats, IN cup; rolled oat'
(ground in meat chopper) 1 Is cups
soy bean -four, 7-S cup; sweet potato
flour, 1-S cups.
This table will help you to make
good griddle cakes, mullins, cakes
cookies, drop biscuits, and nut or rails
in bread without using any wheat
-four.
You will not need new recipes. Just
use the ones your family has always
liked, but for each cup of -four use the
amount Of substitute given in the table
You can change your muffin recipe like
this:
Old Recipe.
2 cups wheat -four, 4 teaspoons bak.
ing powder, n teaspoon salt, table
spoon sugar, cup milk, egg, 1 table
spoon fat.
New Recipe.
/ 3-S cups barley flour, / cup (scant)
corn flour,,4 teaspoons baking powder
n tablespoon sugar, cup milk, 1 egg
1 tablespoon fat.
The only difference is the substitu-
ton for the wheat flour. Everything
else remains the same. You can
change all of your recipes in SINH
lar way.
Good Combinations of Substitutes.
You will bet better. results If you
mix two substitutes than If you use
one alone. Use rolled oats (ground)
or barley flour, or buckwheat flour
or peanut flour or soy-bean flour
with any one of the following: corn
flour, rice flour, potato flour, sweet
potato flour or corn meal.
Cautions.
/. All measurements should be ac-
curate. Standard measuring cups are
equal to a half pint.
g. The batter often looks too thick
and sometimes too thin. You will find
that if you have measured as given
in the table the result will be good
after baking. ~
3. Bake all substitute mixtures
more slowly and longer.
A. Drop biscuits are better than
the rolled biscuits, when substitutes
are used.
5. Pie crusts often do not roll well
and have to be patted on to the pan.
They do not need chilling before bak-
ing.
The above table is to be on kitch-
en- card which will be furnished each
we hope in the near fu-
ture. For the present cut it out and
put it above the kitchen table. You
will find this exceedingly helpful.
You may use your old recipes, the
favorites Of your family and with
this table be able to make them wheat
less and please make them sugarless,
also, by using corn syrup, honey, ETC..
as far as possible.
You viii notice that the weights
given or the measures in cups, are
equivalent to one cup OF wheat flour
and a cup Of substitute in that proper
ton and also that good combinations
OF substitutes are suggested. They
have been tried out IN the Home Eco
nomics Department of the United
States Government and have been
thoroughly tested SO you need not be
afraid to use them.
Recipes for wheatless breads, NUT
fins, cakes, puddings, may be had by
calling at the office of the Home
Demonstration Agent as she has just
received new supply Of leaflet from
the Food Administration, Of recipes
tested In the Experimental Kitchen OF
the Conservation Division of the De
partment of Agriculture.
Let's have more inquiries for wheat
less recipes so that we will know
that you are getting busy and saving
wheat flour and using substitutes.
The following has been released for
publication by the United States Food
l. We must quit eating wheat
bread until harvest.
2. Eat only two pounds of meat per
person per week.
8. Stop eating sugar so that can
ming and preserving may be carried
on.
Herbert Hoover has asked Iowa
people to do these things and Food
Deems has assured him
they will do it without hesitation OF
compulsion.
In response to the above the Man
chester Commercial club has, as q
body, agreed to do all that they can
towards total abstinence of wheat un-
all the new harvest. Every organiza-
ton in Delaware County should fol-
low the example Of the Commercial
Club and do as much as possible to
make popular the idea of doing with
out wheat and wheat products. We
ask you to do this.
We published last week a list OF
foods containing wheat and those
containing no wheat. Please keep
that list for reference when you are
preparing your meals. Paste it above
the kitchen table.
We note by the Chicago paper OF
Sunday that all the North Shore Of
Chicago had voted for mo wheat
from now until SeDtember. Let's hear