[Everyday Foods in War Time by Mary Swartz Rose]@TWC D-Link bookEveryday Foods in War Time CHAPTER III 8/13
A conservative request for one European city alone was a shipment of one million pounds of condensed milk per month! If cattle are killed for food there will be little milk to send and the babies will perish.
We must save meat for our soldiers and sailors, because they need it more than we do.
It is not only easily transported, but one of the few things to give zest to their necessarily limited fare. Fresh fruits and green vegetables, which may serve us as appetizers, are not to be found on the war fields.
Dainty concoctions from cheese and nuts may provide for us flavor as well as nutriment, but meat is the alternative to the dull monotony of bread and beans for the soldier--the tonic of appetite, the stimulant to good digestion.
We can scarcely send him anything to take its place. We must save meat, too, as a general food economy.
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