The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1940-07-25
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumer
Counsel Division, A. A. A.
Washington, ID. C.
Guard Your Food In Summer

Here are rules for keeping food
safe during the hot weather months:
Potato salads, custards, home
cooked salad dressings, and other pic
mic foods containing eggs should be
kept chilled from the time they are
made until they are eaten. Don't pre-
pare picnic foods far in advance if you
are carrying them long distance.
2.-If you plan to serve ground
cooked meats for salads or sandwiches,
keep the meat in the whole piece until
just before it is to be used; there is
less danger then of spreading undesir-
able bacteria. Keep the meat cool un-
til served.
3.-Bulgy cans mean spoiled foods.
If the top or bottom of a can yields
very much to the pressure Of your
fingers, the can is suspect. A good rule
is to use all canned foods within a
year. They may not spoil beyond that
period, but they may be inferior in
quality.
4.-If you have doubts about the
freshness of any food, fresh or canned,
don't run risks to your health by tast-
ing it, or by attempting to salvage it..
Throw it out, if you are a city con-
sumer. Burn it, if you are country
consumer, so that animals cannot get
at it.
5.-Don't worry about keeping food
in open tin cans if you keep the cans
refrigerated and if you are as careful
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Foods kept too long in tin cans may
get metallic flavor, but the tin does
Mt poison the food.
Equality in foods holds up better
in cold storage than in warm. This is
especially true of canned fruit juices.
Keep in a cool dry place, preferably
away from the kitchen heat. Sunlight
sometimes affects the color of foods
bottled in glass, so keep these in a
dark place.
7.-Non-acid foods, such as most
vegetables and meat, should be canned
in pressure cookers because pressure
cookers make possible higher temper
atures. Acid foods don't need to be
canned in pressure cookers because
acids in foods destroy bacteria.
S.-When jellies ferment, the reason
is they may not have been properly
made, or improperly sealed. Fermen-
tation happens most often when they
are made with pectin preparations and
brought only to the Trolling boil" Suf-
ficient water remains to support fer
mentation.
Rules For Mattress Care
A mattress will wear we'll and give
good service only if you give it proper
care.
Protect the mattress from tearing
and from dust by muslin mattress
cover, and by placing a mattress pac
between the spring and the mattress.
Turn mattresses at least once eacl
week.
Air mattresses daily and sun then
frequently.
Dust with a vacuum cleaner or {
stiff brush once "A week.
Don't sit on the edge of the mat
tress.
Seven Grades of Quality
Try this Stumper on your grocer.
man next time you shop: For how
many different kinds of foods are there
U. S. quality grades?
If he is right up to the minute OF
how the Federal Government is pre-
pared to protect consumer purses b.
quality grading his answer will b.
Seven
These foods are: meats; eggs; fresh
canned, and frozen fruits; fresh
canned, and frozen vegetables; cheese
butter; and milk.
You can tell whether these foods ar
graded by looking for the Government
grade mark on the food, or on its con
tainer.
On meats the grade runs down lik
ribbon on ever cut, reading U.
Prime Beef, u. S. Choice Beef, o
whatever the grade may be. Do no
confuse the meat grade mark with tn
round purple stamp indicating tn
meat has been inspected for whole
someness.
On eggs, the grade shows on tn
carton.
If canned fruits and vegetables ar
graded, you'll find the grade Stampe
plainly on the label
The butter grade will be found eth
er on the carton or on a small thi
piece of paper wrapped with the butter
Milk usually carries its grade labe
on the cap.
Frozen fruits and vegetables shoN
their grade mark on the label of tn
carton or container.
Grades for cheese and for fres
fruits and vegetables usually can't b
seen by consumers because they ar
put on the boxes and baskets used b
dealers but rarely available for inspet
tion by customers.
Use of grades by dealers is purel
voluntary. The Government work
them out, and dealers use them or no
as they choose. You can get Govern
ment-graded products by asking you
grocer for them, although it ma
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