ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Evening Star, Issue 21079, 16 April 1932, Page 22

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

A correspondent sends in the following, headed “Why Starve?”; —Recognising that unmilled whole wheat is a perfect food containing in it bran, husk, and germ all the necessary vitamins, oils, starches, and proteins, Dr Lloyd Arnold, professor of bacteriology and preventive medicine at the University of Illinois, is advocating that in these hard times there is no reason for anybody to starve when .wheat can be had for so little money. Dr Arnold has been experimenting on his own family and in his own kitchen with the making and use of wheat soup, wheat muffins, wheat croquettes, wheat pie, wheat pudding, and whole wheat boiled six hours, which, seasoned with salt and served with milk and sugar, makes about the best possible breakfast food. Dr Arnold found that in a week’s time his family consumed only 41b of wheat, and there are 601 bin a bushel. The experimental bushel costs but 63 cents. “ Housekeeper.”—To preserve tomatoes choose those of an even size, firm, and for preference rather small. Boil two quarts of water with one tablespoon of salt for ten minutes, then drop in the tomatoes a few at a time, and allow to cook until the skins just crack, lift out with a spoon, and patek carefully into jars, when jars are full, full to overflowing with the boiling liquid. Screw down securely and pack away.