Evening star., 1943-10-10

But that space-robber, air. took free passage
abroad, until machine gun maker had the idea for
squeezing the air from dried foods Foods are dehy-
drafted in the usual fashion. then given tight squeeze
under high pressure and the stuff turned out in blocks
Squeeze dry whole milk and it is reduced 80 per cent
in its bulk Potatoes compressed require rs per cent
less travelling space. You wouldn't know the stuff;
it's squeezed beyond recognition, but add water,
allow time and it builds up to normal again.
Cranbe1ries in block form look like red brick for
street pa wing job When ready for the table, though.
the berries are swollen round and bouncing as they
had come fresh from the bog.
Some of the war marves of today will be in the
grocery stores tomorrow. Dehydrated meat for one
item - that's our guess having tasted the pork and
beef that go to war fronts. packed in tin.
Dehydxated Hamburger Too!
HAMBuRGERs for supper? Pick up tin spoon out
the dark compressed shreds Not much to look at!
Add water watch them expand and soften into some
thing very like beef freshly ground and that's what
it is, but pre-cooked.
futurama of the well stocked pantry of 1880
will show dimnutive cupboard. bug-proof' light
proof closed tight against air, to hold dehydrated
groceries Open the door let's see what's there.
Those yellow fakes hold the flavor of hand OF
bananas The brown shavings are dates for puddngs
and cakes The purple dust is grape juice waiting for
tanned in that four-ounce jar of scarlet powder.
The bag of wax-like chips potatoes to work up
into bowl of mashed spuds.
Spoon suntan powder into a cup OF water ana SIM
mer a few minutes = mashed sweet potatoes row.
dered vegetables, whole row. to use in thickenlng
sauces and making cream soups.
A baby in the family? There is talk OF dehydrated
powders being designed for infant feeding In recent
clinical tests made in the Flower and Fifth Avenue
Jobv afadv
of talcum- like fneness added to the milk formu-
lac of babies but six hours old and they took to II
dandy - digestive upsets.
Tomorrows mllkman may make fewer deliveries:
more powdered milk will be used Tor everyday COOK
ing As women come to know the convenience OF
using egg powders, fewer fresh eggs may be stored
A package of powdered egg white can be used for
perfect angel food cake, for seven-mnute frosung,
for pudding delicate as butterfly wings Less
fresh citrus will be needed if orange, lemon and lime
JUICE are sold concentrates Why give house room
to pumpkins - when whole one can be stored IN an
envelope?
Iupxoved Since the Last War
HE world has been drying foods since it started
scratching records stone But for centuries drying
remained just primitive craft. During World War l,
dehydration was put to the test and how mlseraby
it failed! Those first products were often soggy,
queer coored with peculiar unexpected havors The
1917 Army ditty summed up the situation They
feed us carrots every day they taste just like alfalfa
hay; hinkey dinkey parez vous'
This time word comes back from far camps that
dehydrated foods taste good - well, pretty good
They should - for the chemists, biochemists nutrl-
tionists technoogists all have turned the spotlight
of their laboratories the problems of the infant
industry. They have determined to produce foods
that with water added, will chew and taste like the
fresh article - and deliver full nut1tional values.