Milk cuts food cost in wartime diet analysis
A National Dairy Council chart, citing USDA Bureau of Home Economics, shows a quart of milk supplying a large share of daily nutrients at about 15.1 cents per quart, with remaining foods costing around 44 cents to complete a balanced diet. It highlights meals where milk features in breakfast, lunch, and dinner alongside bread, fruit, vegetables, cookies, and coffee.
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Bureau of Home Economics
U. S. Department of Agriculture
National Dairy Council
United States
Old Favorite Potato Dishes Across Central America
Classic potato salad and cole slaw treated as year round staples across Central America with olives pimientos and marjoram. Includes detailed prep steps for potato salad and cheese garnish, plus a separate cookie and pie filling recipe era style.
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Rio Grande
Middle America
Mexico
Panama
Chiffon Pies Are Always Welcome Recipe Card
A historic dessert feature outlines a lemon chiffon pie and crispy crumb crust. It lists ingredients including sugar salt egg yolks water lemon juice rind and egg whites with steps to cook in double boiler then bake. Also provides a crumble crust with butter brown sugar water bread crumbs and cinnamon for a 10 inch pie crust.
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Max
Lima Bean Soup and Oat Nut Cookies
Lima bean soup combines dried lima beans onions celery leaves boiling water bacon peppers tomatoes and marjoram, simmered to serve six to eight. A separate oat nut cookie recipe bakes cookies from eggs oats nuts vanilla and sugar for about 12 minutes yields a dozen.
Lunch Box Cakes Fill Real Need
A compact recipe feature outlines two variations for lunch box cakes. Bran Fudge Squares use bran and nuts with chocolate and dates, baked in a shallow pan for 20 minutes. A date walnut cake combines chopped walnuts dates flour and spices, baked 25 minutes until firm, then cut into squares.
Ginger Raisin Nut Squares Recipe
A compact baking note outlines a simple ginger raisin nut squares recipe. It lists ingredients including sifted flour baking soda ginger raisins nuts shortening brown sugar vanilla and molasses. The method covers mixing dry ingredients creaming shortening with sugar folding in flour mix spreading in a greased pan baking at 350 degrees for about 30 minutes and cutting into 25 squares while warm.
Crunchy Potato Coating Adds Flavor and Texture
A cooking note describes coating cooked potatoes with melted shortening, rolling in dry breakfast cereal flakes, and baking 15 minutes in a moderate oven to boost nutrition and appeal. It also defines vanilla as the cured seed pod of an orchid plant.
Keep Them Dark Jams Jellies Preserve Storage Advice
Government reports advise storing jams jellies and preserves in a cool dark dry place not the kitchen top shelf. Prevent spoilage by choosing a cool dark dry location. avoid light heat and humidity.
Covered egg storage and park acreage figures
Eggs stay freshest when refrigerated in a covered carton or hydrator area. The National Park system now totals 21,613,543 acres including recreation areas monuments cemeteries and parks.
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United States
U S Marking Alcohol From Potato Surplus War Effort
Government plans convert more than 18 million bushels of lower grade potatoes into industrial alcohol for war use. Potatoes dehydrated for idle Midwestern sugar beet plants and shipped to alcohol plants for processing. An Arkansas farm labor exodus of 74,959 workers last year reported by the state farm labor committee. Scales of sea herrings used in fire extinguishing preparations. Volunteers compose 70 percent of OPA personnel.
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Arkansas
State Farm Labor Committee
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OPA
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