Methods of Saving Wheat, Meat, Sugar and Fat
A 53-page illustrated edition of Minnie L. Jamison’s 1917 First World War cookbook on cooking with less wheat, meat, sugar and fat.
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Minnie L. Jamison
Minnie L. Jamison prepared Methods of Saving Wheat, Meat, Sugar and Fat: How to Meet War Problems at Home, issued in November 1917 as a Bulletin of the North Carolina State Normal and Industrial College in Greensboro. It brought the American First World War food-conservation campaign into everyday cooking. HIPS presents it as kitchen history, not as tested modern recipes.
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