Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1918-11-20
THE ONION JOINS
THE ARhh1RAIVkS
The Food Administration Uruea
Use of This Old Friend.
INTRODUCES THE PATR0NI0N
eeats Has oversuppIy Of Onions and
Housewives Are Asked to Use
Thorn A. War Measure.

Thorn A. War Measure.
The onion has joined the ranks Of
tho military. It has become a Mime
sofa war measure! Permit US to in
troouce the Patron1on! Fall In be-
nlnd this leader and put the Hun on
tho run with an on-1onl
Miss Mildred Weigley, homo eco
nomics director for the federal food
administration for Minnesota, IL urg-
ing the housewives of the state to
make generous use of this somewhat
belittled vegetable friend. Miss Weie.
leys advice IL given for three rea,
sons:
Minnesota just now has more onions
than 1t can handle unless rather tmme.
date use 10 made Of them.
The caloric value of onions IL 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 msny
sections OF the state than can be
stored through the winter" says Miss
| We1gley. with our present food situa-
ton we cannot afford to let one ounce
OF tood go to waste II there Is a DOS
s1ble way of using it. Three to four
medium onions or one-thlrd cup of
scalloped onions will! give as much
food value az two small baking DOW
der biscuits or two slices of Victory
bread or two tablespoons OF sugar.
| They may be prepared In many at
| tract1ve ways. Here are some of the
| varieties of onion dishes:
scalIoped Onions with Cheese.
Cut boiled onions in quarters. Put
| IN a 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 I.
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 II.
Peel large onions and remove a por-
t1on 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 80 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 2 tablespoons corn syrup. Bake
until soft. basting with stock in pan.
Public Eatlng-Plaess Warned.
Public at1ng-places 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
tng-places in the state.
| Mr.. Wilson believes that most of the
proprietors OF hotels and restaurants
and other public eating places are
ready to cooperate. He says, how
1 ever, that If 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 a mil
lion tons Of foodstuffs, to be shipped
overseas, must comprise meat, fat and
poultry products. The farm is the
source of American food and the wise
use of animal feeds which produces
maximum results from the feed con
sumed, is the basis for this food
Meat, milk and poultry products all
must be saved In large quantities this
year. Scarcity of feeding stuffs of all
kinds has become so great in Great
Britain that the Board of Agriculture
is encouraging roadside grazing. The
labor side of the question is met by
the part-time employment of children.
Already the scant supply of milk is
impsriled. This is due to the fact that
pasture and grass land has been
plowed for vegetable and cereal pro-
duction. Present conditions in Amer
lea, where land Is more abundant, en-
phasize the need of maintaining not
only livestock but also an abundant
supply of coarse grains and forage
One hundred and twenty million AL.
lies and 1O5,000,000 Americans must
be fed. The starving of other nations
also are looking to Americans for food.
Peace will add millions to these mil
lions.