Food Expert Predicts
Vast U. S. Shortage
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By ADELAIDE KERR
AP Features Writer
NEW YORK — Dean Sarah
Blanding says that American
housewives face the greatest food
shortage they have ever known
and that they will have to use a
lot of food tricks to feed their
families adequately this winter.
Miss Blanding is director of
human nutrition for the New
York State Emergency Food Com
mission and dean of the College
of Home Economics at Cornell
University. Although her work
deals only with New York state. ,
she says that shortage conditions j
exist generally throughout the
country.
"Meat, milk eggs, butter,
fresh fruits and vegetables are
going to be scarce,” said Dean
Blanding on a recent New York
trip. “There will be plenty of
food for nourishment purposes.’
but not plenty of everything.
We have been a nation of meat
eaters and we are going to have
to adjust ourselves to a cereal
diet."
Dean Bland ing’s dark eyes
snapped with intensity. She
reached toward a little table and
scooped a pile of packaged foods
onto the lap of her brown and
toiege plaid suit.
‘‘We are going to use a lot of
this kind of food this winter.”
she said as she opened a bag that
held soy beans, another of soy
bean toast and a third of noodles.
“Soy beans are very rich in
protein content and they have a
nutty, meaty flavor,” she went
on. ‘‘We can use them in .‘meat’
loaves and soups, in so bean flour
for bread and cakes and in many j
ether ways. We have also learned
to sprout them and when they are
sprouted they have as much vita
mio C as tomatoes. In the Cornell
laboratory we found that it is
practical to freeze these sprouted
soy beans and now quick-freeze
companies are doing it. The
sprouted soy beans will be on
the market shortly.
“We are also going to use a
igreat many cereals—noodles,
spaghetti and so on—as extends
of a small amount of meat. We
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DEAN SARAH BLANDING
“Better eat soy beans ...”
can cook noodles with meat to
give them the meat flavor and
serve spaghetti with meat sauce.
"Right now housewives
should increase their provisions
of food by canning tomatoes,
apples, grapes and everything
else possible. They should also
store as many root vegetables, ,
such as carrots and turnips, as
they can procure. And to be
prepared in case of further but
ter shortage, they should pe- •)
pare a lot of spreads—apple
butter, tomato relish and things
of that sort.
"It looks as though the protein j
shorage would last for this year
anyway. Next year we must plan
a better food supply ahead.”
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to British war orphans in the “Santa Claus workshop" of a D. S.
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Washington Off the Record—
Plugging Headquarters
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B.v MARGARET KERNODLE
AP Features Writer
WASHINTON — Certain cor
ridors in the Commerce building
in Washington are blocked off
now. The reason—When German
submarines were so active, some
times a single ship of a big con
voy would be the only target.
That ship would be the one with
the most precious cargo. Officials
feared information not only about
embarkation but also about what
the ships carried might be leak
ing out straight from headquar
ters.
A tag on the desk marked it
for “moving” in one of those gov
ernment offices being shifted
around town. On top of a bulj.%ig
wastepaper basket by the desk 1
noticed a card which had been
thrown away in moving prepara
tions. The card read: “The only
road to success is through the at
tainment of a calm and joyous
mind. A calm and joyous mind
free from worry and care is the
golden key that unlocks the doors
of infinite possibilities.” One
more move might have been too
much for the man with that mot
to—huh?
The “gallant 440" is the name
attached to the first WAAC
officers trained at Fort Des
Moines, la. Forty of these offi
cers—now WAAC’s — recently
celebrating their first anniver
sary with Col. Oveta Culp
Hobby, included several who
have seen service in England
and Africa.
Soldiers, sailors and marines
will find girls to guide them
through the Smithsonian Institu
j tipn—a popular soldier’s choice
;here—Sunday from 10 to 11 a. m.
and 2 to 3 p. m. The girls art
taking special instruction from
! head curator of anthropology, Dr.
Frank Setzler.
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Some Washington doctors are
so busy, patients report, that
everybody in the office from the
secretary to the telephone girl as
sists in treatments. The patients
don’t like “medical attenion” that
way and are fretting about the
situation as something ‘‘serious.’’
Several Washington families
without servants for a long
time hit on the idea of giving
themselves a vacation by being
“good neighbors.’’ The idea is:
Ton take care of my children
this week; I take cake of yours
next. They also take turns on
evenings out
Sandy Heaston is only four.
She listened to her family fight
the war. Somebody said, “We’ll
beat the Germans by Christmas.”
“But the war won’t be over,”
Sandy informed the family.
. “Beating the Germans isn’t so
much," she challenged them.
“Lick the Japs and you’ve done
something.”
Tail them you saw it ha The
Kagget
Washington Bean Soup
2 cups dry beans
Water
Ham bones
1-2 cup celery leaves
1-4 cup sliced, green peppers
(optional)
1-2 cup diced onions
1 teaspoon salt
1-4 teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon chopped parsley
(optional)
Wash and pick over beans. Cov
|er by three inches with cold wa
ter and let soak overnight. Pour
into large kettle, add five cups
water, bone, celery leaves (chop
ped fine) peppers and onions.
Cover and simmer two hours—or
until beans are very soft. Add
rest of mgTedients and boil five
minutes. Top each portion with
broken crackers.
Prunes
4 tablespoons sugar
, 1 tablespoon flour
1-8 teaspoon salt
1-4 teaspoon grated lemon rind
1-2 cup seeded prunes
1-2 oup prune juice *
1 teaspoon margarine or but
ter
salt. Add rest of mgreients. Cook
slowly, stirring constantly until
a little thick. Pour over dough, ^
bake 20 minutes in moderate
oven.
To make a refreshing, nutri
tious fall dessert use grapejuice
foT half the liquid called for in a
gelatin pudding. Serve plain or
with cream. Sliced oranges or
grapefruit blend nicely with
grapejuice desserts. Put inside
the pudding or arrange on the
outside as a garnish.
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