EMPIRE COOKERY BOOK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19390, 27 July 1926, Page 5

EMPIRE COOKERY BOOK.

The National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations have issraed the Empire Cookery Book, compiled by Marguerite Fedden. Its purpose is to induce every houaewife to use Dominions' products in her kitchen, and a number of recipes are given, each ingredient indicated having set beside it the desired country of origin. Throughout the book the words "New Zealand" appear many times—in fact, there are very few recipes where thoy don't occur. There are meats, Toheroa soup, butter, cheese, eijgs, suet, passion fruitall from New Zealand—and these items occur many times over. With the circulation oi the book there should be a continuously ' growing demand for products of the Dominions, and most of the recipes are for dishes at present little known and therefore should prove in demand, as any enterprising cook is always on the look out to try something out "of the ordinary. The book is prefaced by some advice offered by Mrs. Baldwin, thus;— "It is not given to us all to be Empirebuilders, but there is one way in which we can very definitely help Empire trade, and that is by buying British and Empire goods. We depend very largely on our trade with the overseas Dominions and colonies, and they help us by giving a preference on Britiah-made goods. Is it not better that the money we spend on food should go to help our kinsmen overseas who are planting and growing food for us, rather than to foreigners who have no interests in the British Empire ? Not only are British goods better and cleaner thaa foreign goods, but they are generally cheaper. The recipci have been prepared in order to familiarise housewives at home with the best ways to prepare and use Empire foods. I hope all housekeepers will do their best to insist on being supplied with Home produce or Empire goods, I may say that I always ask for Empire produce myself." Each page has; a useful catchline reminder of some kind. For instance: "The more you buy from the Empire, the more the Empire buys from us, and the more work there is for our men." "When you spend £1 on Empire food it helps to put a British workman back to work,"

"We cannot grow enough meat for our own needs in Britain. Buy New Zealand or Australian meat instead of Argentine." "The Empire produces all the food we need to supplement home produce—Buy from your own Empire farm." "Buy Empire food, because the Dominions and colonies are our best customers."

"Fill your shopping basket with Home tod Empire food —and see that the basket is British-made." "Why pay wages to a foreigner when, by buying Empire food, you can help to keep an Englishman in work?" "It rests with the housewives of Britain to decide whether we shall buy our food from our own people or from foreign countries,"