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-V J } S*' Atlanta THE SUNDAY AMERICAN’S PURE FOOD PAGE MAY 11, 1913. Cassidy Tells How to Know Just What Jellies to Buy to Secure Real Purity iit \\T Unde Sam Has a Breadmaker Warm Weather: ' Mother - * Home-Made Jellle*" are the topic* of Mr. Ca»*ldy s article to-day. He explain* to hoti*ewlve* why the jellle* they buy at the stores are often cheaper than the jellle* they make at home. There are good Jellies and bad jel lies. Mr. Cassidy tells about both to-day. By HARRY P. CASSIDY. A few days ago 1 went Into a atore. While there I noticed some glasses of jelly on the counter at one side. Nrotn where I stood tha label read like this: PURE Apple Jelly I walked across the store to look closer, and I read the label again. This Is what I read: PURE Contains 1-10 of Bonzoale of Soda. Apple Jelly When I read that label I decided to tell the housewives something about the jellies displayed on the shelves of some of our stores. The jelly whose label 1 have repro duced above la put up In Boston. I consider the label misleading, and under a strict interpretation of the law*, illegal. The word “Pure" has. In my opinion, no place on any product containing benzoate of soda. Such a jelly as that could not be shipped in interstate commerce, be cause the label is misleading. Let me tell you a story—a story that has its touch of human interest and that gets right at the heart of the jelly industry at tha same time. There was an old woman in Phila delphia—an old friend of my mother’s family. Hhe was over 75 when she died last year. Two years ago she came to the house one day to see my mother, and } got into talk with her. I asked her what she was doing. “Picking berries,” she answered. Where?” 1 asked, “In a preserving house,” she said. “Tell me how you work,” I asked again. She told me. “They pay us 30 cents a crate for picking over berries,” she said. “I’m a pretty slow worker, and I can’t pick over a crate a day. The berries we pick over are those discarded by deal ers, or those laid aside in the sorting processes, w here berries are prepared for retail sales. “We have three cans. Into one wei put the crushed and dirty berries. Into j another we put all that are at all firm, I and the green berries go Into the I third can. “The crushed and dirty ones go to 1 the preserving kettles. The firm ones go to storage houses, to be kept till the season when berries arc scarce, and the green ones are kept in the 1 same way. “Do you wash the dirty ones?” I asked. “Wash them—no. indeed. Why, If you washed them, you'd wash them all away,” *»he answered. Now, that story show's the condi tions in the worst type of jelly fac tory. Do not understand me as say ing all factories are the same. There are many that are puttlnft out sound, reliable product. If you want to know how to pick out these products, let me give you this rule: Head the label carefully and *ee if these words appear: "Guaranteed under the National Food and Drugs Act, Serial No. If theep words appear, it is safe to assume that the rest of the label tells the truth—for the Federal authori ties reoulre truthful labels If the label contains the words "phosphoric acid," "bantoate of soda " ■■■odium benzoate.” "benzol. arid!” tsodlum sulphite," sulphite of sodium " OR ANY OTHER CHEMICAL TERM THAT YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, my advice to you is DON'T Itl'Y THAT JELLY The beet firm* in making their jelly use only fruit, fruit Juice and sugar Where the label reads like a doctor's prescription ftie product is of doubt ful character. The fundamental evil of the Jelly and preserve and jam business Is that unripe or damaged fruit Is often used. You housewives know that you can’t get good results by using poor fruit. But the manufacturer has a power ful assistant. Ulueco.se Is the agent that debases this product, as tt does so many others. Here is the tvpe of label you will often see: Apple Jelly Compound - Contains 30 s * sugar, 35** glucose, 19* apple juice. 15* fruit. 1* phosphoie acid Now that label should be mist rust ed by every purchaser. The word “compound” is a danger mark, cov ering a multitude of evils. The jelly itself contains a little apple Juice, made from the cores and peelings «>i apples: a little fruit, some sugar, a |l greal d* j al of glucose and a dash "t at Id. That would be a very tasty -in its way. But that should he driven "ft the market. I J haw bought jellies the label onj| which stated that the product con tained as high as 65 per cent glu cose. often there is a little gelatine to give strength and body to the mix ture. 1 want to repeat what I have often said before in this column. Glucose is probably all right in itself. Many eminent chemists declare 1t Is a deleterious substance—l)r. Wiley among them. But give the glucose people the benefit of the doubt and say that glucose Is as healthy as • me sugar, though not as sweet. Th e fact remains that glue,one by its nature lends Itself to such tricks as this Jelly recipe. It is a product ready at hand for any one who.wants to adulterate or debase foods of a certain character. And one of the worst evils that can be laid at glu cose's door is that it makes possible the manufacture of the evil clan* of jellies and jams. Artificial color and artitidal flavors add to the fraud at times. They are glucose’s accessories, assisting in the debasing process. You housewives—become knowing on the subject of Jams and Jellies If you buy them at the stores, read the labels. Buy no Jelly not guaran teed under the nationul law, and buy no Jelly so guaranteed If It contains products the names of which are mysteries to you. You know what ought to go Into Jelly. When something else is used, you have a right to distrust that jelly. Cut High Price.s by Eating On ions Says Uncie Sam The United States Department of Agricultuie, through H. C. Thompson assistant horticulturist, has Invited the Housewives League to help stim ulate the consumption of onions and thus reduce the present high prices now demanded by the retailer. In a letter to Mrs. Julian Heath, the National President of the league, Mr. Thompson writes that the Department has been informed thut there Is a large amount of the 1912 onion crop still in storage with practically no market for It. Although farmers are receiving only from 40 to 50 cents a bushel lor onions, the Department finds that the retail price in some cities Is 40 cents a peck and the on ions are used for seasoning only. With a lower price, Mr. Thompson suggests, consumers would he induc ed to use the crop as a common ar ticle of food. Mr Thrmpspn wrote that were It possible for such an organization as the Housewives League to buy onions direct from storage houses, and sell them for as low a price as it could afford, » much larger quantity of on ions would be disposed of In open markets. He offered to let Mrs Heath know where large quantities of onion.s may he obtained at a very low price. No amount of education along the lines of continental eating ran wean the American man from a taste for pie, and the story Is told of more than one of the men of prominence in politics and finance that their first request on landing In their native country after European traveling was for a piece of pie. In view of this fact no real American cook, amateur or professional, is really worth her salt if she can’t make pie. The double decked variety of pie with its ofttimes soggy undercrqst and sometimes leatheroid upper sec tion is no easy matter to construct, and is, to say the least, sometimes in digestible. But the single crust pie— the shell pie which will answer the cravings of the most pie addicted man is easy to make and is not at all indigestible. The indlgestlbllity of pie usually lies in the sogglness of the under- crust. In the shell pie the crust is baked separately and can be as dry and crisp as you please without fear of overcooking the rest of the pie. A Hint From the Camp Cook. One woman who couldn’t master the usual recipe for pie crust tried the plan which campers often resort to of using a sort of “glorified biscuit dough” for the purpose and there is no danger that this will not turn out well. Mix and sift together a pint of flour, a teaspoonful of baking powder, one-half teaspoonful of salt. Rub into this two heaped tablespoonfuls of butter and two heaped tablespoon - fills of lard and make Into a soft dough, moistening as needed with cold water. Roll this as the usual pie dough Into an thin a sheet as possi ble and place it on a buttered pie tin, cutting around the edge with a sharp knife Moisten a silver fork and press around to keep the dough from slipping from the tin or. better still, press around with the thumb. Allow these crusts to bake in a moderate oven lill they are thor oughly light and crisp. They can be kept several days in a dry, covered box and form the basis for many de licious desserts. The old-fashioned berry pie that bubbled rich purple juice from its uj per crust and emitted savory odors of goodness when it was baking has found a peer In the single crust berry pie. To make this use ripe, though not necessarily large fruit. Pick the hur ries over carefully and, after washing them, drain them on a piece of cheesecloth to make them as dry as possible. Have one of the crusts baked to a delicate'golden brown, and just before serving fill It with the berries. Have half a pint of cream whipped tot Iff an 1 sweetened to taste and pile tnis on the berries and serve. Instead of fresh berries fresh and Very ripe peaches peeled and halved may be used with good results. In place of the fresh peaches canned peaches. drained thoroughly from their Juice, can be used. Add them to the crust just before serving. Th* Meringue Pie. To make a delicious lemon pie, use a pie shell buked in a small, deep tin. The shell should be cooked through, but not browned. Make a lemon fill ing as follows: Mix a heaping table spoonful of flour or cornstarch in a cupful of water and add a table spoonful of melted butter, a cupful of granulated .sugar, the grated rind and Juice of one large lemon and the beaten yolks of two or three eggs. Cook these ingredients in a double boiler to a thick custard, stirring it constantly. Hland away from the tire until cool. Then turn the filling into the crust and return it to the oven to set the filling. When the filling is set remove the Young Woman a Real Expert M ISS HANNAH WESS- LING, the official baker for Uncle Sam. pie from the oven, cover with a mer ingue made from the whites of the three—or two—eggs, and return to the oven, leaving it in ju»t long enough to tint the meringue a deli cate biscuit color. Keep it in a cool place until serving time. An orange meringue pie, made by substituting oranges for lemans, is delicious. It is more savory if the grated rind of half a lemon and half an orange and the juice of a lemon and orange are used together. The be>t way to make a meringue is as follows: Have the whites of the eggs very cold and beat them, with a pinch of salt, until they are stiff Thery add granulated sugar— a tablespoonful and a half to each egg white. Beat thoroughly after add ing the sugar, as this makes the meringue firmer and less likely to fall. Miss Hannah Wessling Has Had Experience in a Good Many Fields. WASHINGTON, May 10.—The Fed eral Government ha* an official bread baker. She is a college woman with a scientific degree and a reputation as an independent experimental chem- ij*t, who is devoting all her time and bringing the science of the age to bear upon the one small task—th baking of a loaf of bread. She is doing this at the solicitation of UncLe Sam, who holds that hers Is one of the most important tasks to which he has ever set one of his scientists. For there is not a man, woman or child in all the land who does not regularly eat bread and whose well being is not affected by the bread he eats. So has the Government assigned to one well-trained woman the task of developing the perfect loaf. She is Miss Hannah Wending, of the De partment of Agriculture. She has been told that all the money and time and assistance and collaboration which a great government can afford is hers In the task. She is asked to set the standard for the bread of a nation and after years of conscientious en deavor she believes that she has ac complished her purpose. Uncle Sam gave this young woman I a model kitchen at the Bureau of 1 Chemistry, gave her free scope as to how much material she might waste, , and told her in that brusque Yankee way of his to go ahead and' beat the world in bread making. The presiding genius of the nation’s flour barrel is a sunny-haifed, blue eyed college girl who is so modest about her work that she doey not I wish her name used in telling it. * Al though very young, Miss Wessling is the holder of imposing degrees from | the University of Cincinnati and one j of the most enterprising experimental chemists is the Department of Agri culture. Mis?» Wessling holds that the ideal loaf of bread is not close nor soggy nor is it full of big crevasses, but it is light and evenly porous all through, cuts smooth and even, and does not crumble. The crust should be a*light brown, while the bread matter is white and should be deliciously appe tizing. Part of her work is to accu rately measure and weigh the differ- j ent loaves when they are finished. Miss Wessling is a devotee of the i thermometer as a gauge in cooking, and says the reason so many women fail in breadmaking is because they use the old hand tests. She believes, too, that electric stoves are the best for bread-making, and prophesies that ; thev will be used universally very , soon. II Hair’s Your Pride Use HERPICIDE m, DC Persons who use Newbro’s Herpicide and use it intelligently are satisfied. The results are frequently of such surprising nature as to be almost past belief. READ SOME EXPERIENCES OF THOSE WHO KNOW I hnvt* Ix'cu U'iiiifi HtT|>tckh> for about four years and consider it tlit* most delight ful hair dressing lit the world. 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