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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 41
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4 EXTENSION CIRCULAR No. 9 [June, From the table it is seen that: Corn contains as much carbohydrate as flour. Corn contains more fat than flour or potatoes. Corn has more protein than potatoes and practically the same percent protein as flour. Corn is higher in mineral content than either flour or potatoes. The ash content of corn is, however, more like that of rice and wheat than like that of potatoes, having an excess of acid elements over the basic elements. Potato has more basic or alkaline forming elements than acid. For that reason when corn or rice replaces potato, it is necessary to use milk, fruits, and vegetables even more plentifully in the diet to supply the basic elements, such as calcium, magnesium, sodium, and potassium. Corn meal from the pecuniary standpoint supplies more than one and one-half times as much energy materials as flour for the same money, and six times as much as potatoes at the present prices. None of the cereal products from oats or corn or wheat supply adequate protein for maintenance and growth if used exclusively in a limited dietary. Milk, which is rich in all the proteins adequate for growth, supplies those which are essential and rounds out their " incompleteness.'' HIT ml CORN MEAL The following recipes, some used in laboratory courses in food work and some from the United States Farmers' Bulletins, are suggestive of a few of the many ways in which corn and hominy may be used as a vegetable, and corn meal, a mill product, may be used in batters and doughs. The prices on which costs were computed are those paid in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, May 1, 1917. The term fat is used in the recipes to indicate any shortening, butter, oleomargerine, lard, Crisco, or drippings. "With corn meal mixtures, bacon drippings may be used to advantage. Chicken fat and beef drippings combined give a fat more like lard in consistency and may amount of liquid in recipes will be affected by longer scalding of corn meal, necessitating more liqui' oi- by using a bread flour which has great absorptive power ) 1 ri CORN MEAL MUSH 1 cup corn meal 4 to 6 cups water % to 1 teaspoon salt or 4 cups or more milk %
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