Show I VEGETABLE FATS FOR COOKING Butter lard and other animal fats having soared in price above the reach of ot the tho poor people In Germany German atten attention attention attention tion has been turned to the manufacture manufacture ture of vegetable fats and the experiment experiment ment seems been a success ac according according according cording to the United States vice con consul consul sul sui at Mannheim who writes as fol tol follows follows lows concerning the manufacture of ot edible fats from copra the meat of ot the cocoanut Perhaps not the least of the re renowned renowned renowned excellence of German cooking is due to the use of good baking and frying fats Refined lard so EO common in the United States is little used here being disdained by the well to do The poorer people use cheap varieties of it which the butchers and sausage manu manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers usually make The better classes use beef beet fat goose grease and butter some families and these not of ot the wealthy class either going so far faras faras faras as to use butter for everything How However However However ever butter and other animal fats tats have been soaring in price along with other articles of food and end so manufactured fats have been coming on the market The German law is fairly strict In the matter of foodstuffs and their quality so that really reaIl poor fats cannot be sold One Mannheim firm has brought out palmin a cooking and baking fat of at purity and excellence Its sale has enormously Increased and an export trade is developing Palmin is a hard snowwhite vege vegetable vegetable vegetable table fat of practically per cent purity While the process of its man manufacture manufacture manufacture was as originally secret so many factories manufacturing g similar lines have hae recently sprung up in Germany that It can no longer be so considered Palmin Is made from copra which is simply the dried and smoked meat of cocoanuts Heretofore the bulk of the I copra used has come from Ceylon Celon The Mannheim firm is now contemplating erecting a factory where it will wiIl prepare I the meat itself which will mean among other things even more scrupulous cleanliness than before This copra is 15 treated with steam team to re remove r remove move moe all oils water Vater etc After otter the re removal removal moval of or the impurities and d water the fat secured is per cent pure and only slight treatment is then needed to tomake tomake tomake make the finished product Pr In this country cottonseed oil is used in the adulteration of or lard but of course the tle public health h does not suffer by the deception as the oil if It pure Is readily read II assimilated Cottonseed oil oU also masquerades under the name of olive oil oilin U il UIn ilin in the sardine Industry to a consider considerable considerable considerable able extent and everybody eats eat the little fishes Just the same same saine rhe use x of f vegetable getable fats fat for cooking purposes Is bound tc to grow and nId the German Germa n ex cx X t L r ample will probably be followed all aU allover allover I over the world |