The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1941-06-19
Consumer Notes
Issued Weekly by Consumer
Counsel Division. A. A. A.
Washington, D. c.
Volume w, No. 5
Buy Grapefruit by Grade

canned fruits ad vegetables, the use
of grades for caned grapefruit juice,
and canned grapefruit is voluntary.
No Gamer is required to use these
standards in grading or labelling his
product. The grades have been set up
by the Agricultural Marketing Serv-
ice Of the Department of Agriculture.
Only two grades are defined for
canned grapefruit juice: Grade A, and
Grade C. In general Grade A canned
grapefruit juice is the best quality one
can buy. The grade specification re-
quires natural light color, juice
that is practically free from defects,
that contains only a small amount Of
pulp, and may be sweetened or un-
sweetened.
Grade C. grapefruit juice may be
darker in color, may contain more
pulp, may contain slightly more oil
than Grade A, and may not be SO del
icately favored. Grade grapefruit
juice like all Grade c canned foods,
is wholesome, nourishing and we'll
favored, and may be sweetened or un-
sweetened.
There are three grades for canned
grapefruit, A, B and Broken" Grade
A canned grapefruit is carefully Sc
lected for size, color, texture and fla
vor. Grade B is a choice product,
which may lack the uniform excellence
of Grade A. Broken grade canned
grapefruit may be Of very good quail
ity but is packed from broken grape.
fruit segments.
Consumers should remember that
canned grapefruit ad grapefruit juice
are not legally required to be graded.
Therefore, if consumers want these
very useful grade statements on the
canned citrus they buy, they must
ask for them at their grocery stores.
Glossary for the Kitchen
Do you know what to do when a
recipe says to "cut in"? What's the
difference between braising and fry
ing? Would you "beat" cake mix
ture when the recipe said to "fold" ?
To solve these riddles of the kitch-
en-, a cookery photographer in the
Department Of Agriculture has COM
piled a simple glossary of everyday
words and phrases used in cooking.
Here are few of them:
SIMMER: To cook in water that is
about 1876 degrees Fahrenheit, that is,
in water that never quite comes to a
boil. Simmering is gentle cooking
process that gives you tender pieces
of meat in rich gravy
FRY: To cook in fat. There is
deep fat frying, a method by which
the food being cooked is covered with
fat, or there is pan frying where just
enough fat to prevent the food from
sticking is used. Foods also may be
fried in their own fat, say bacon OF
sausages.
BRAISE: To brown in little hot
fat and then to cook in steam with OF
without added liquid Swiss steak
and pot roast are examples of brais
ing. inexpensive cuts of meat wher
properly braised become tender
enough to cut with fork. Vegeta
bles, like celery and carrots, may alst
be braised
| CUTTING IN: To mix fat into fou1
by cutting the fat into little pieces
either with knife, fork, biscuit cut
ter, or pastry blender.
BEAT: To agitate with regula
rhythmic motion that lifts the mixture
over and over in such way that al
is forced into the mixture. Beatin,
may be done with spoon, wir
whip, a Dover beater, or a mechani
cal beater.
FOLD: To combine beaten eg,
whites with the thicker part of tn
mixture for cake, a souffle', or
puffy omelet. In order to make tn
fold, the spoon or egg whip is pu
straight down to the bottom of tn
bowl and then turned under the mas
and brought straight up. In thi
manner layers Of the thicker mixtur
and the egg whites are mixed to
gether.
Tufts and Ticking for Mattress
I Mattress ticking should be closel
woven to prevent dust working it
way through into the mattress an
to prevent hairs and fibers from work
ing their way out. 1t shouldn
stretch, shrink, or fade from laundel
ing, exposure to light, or from pers
piration. Consumers should insist o
explicit label guarantees.
| Hospital buyers ordinarily purchas
mattresses with an S-ounce ticking
that means yard Of ticking 32 inche
wide weighs 8 ounces. Home econt
mists, too, urge consumers to insist @
i! at least an 8-ounce ticking. Ticking
in g., T. s., and 9-ounce weights con
: on commercial mattresses, and tt
thing to remember here is that tt
heavier the ticking the more durab
It is likely to be.
II Federal specifications call for ticl
ing with blue and white stripes. AS
rule printed tickings and brocadt
are less durable than plain weaves.
| Tufts hold the mattress togeth,
and prevent the filling from slippin
out Of place. Tufts should be a
ranged in diamond pattern on Il
mattress and should be made of twin