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Show loci sunn OF IHEGG COST Albumeri Driecl Whites of Eggs AHopteH by Housewives House-wives an3 Restaurants. SHORTAGE IS SOLVED Declare Weather Conditions of Last Season Caused Cessation of Laying. Hereafter whon the thrifty housewife house-wife who feels that sho caunot afford to pay 50 or 60 cents for a dozon fresh egs and disdains to secure the varioty i sold at 35 or -JO ccuts, long forgot by tho hens who laid 'em, wishes to bal:o a cake, sho will not overdraw her husband's hus-band's bank account to purchase tho necessary eggs. Sho will just go to the store and order a hnlf pound of albumen. albu-men. 1 That albumen which is tho driod whites of eggs is already being adopted adopt-ed by Salt Lako bakers and restaurants as a substitute for eggs, is tho opinion of stato pure food officials. The dried eggs only costs about oO cents a pound and, mixed with water, a pound of albumen al-bumen is equul to about two dozou eggs for food purposes. Stato food officials say that tho ogg substitute is sanitary. Albumen, like dried milk, so far is hardly a commercial product, but is used mostly in baking powder to make it foam, and is also usod to soma extent by bakers, according to Llcrmuu Unrms, stato chemist. .He says it is probablo, however, that albunfun may bocomo popular with housewives in tho ratio that eggs bocomo unpopular with their steady advance in cobc Solve Problems. Puro food officials say that TvhDe albumen al-bumen makos an excellent substitute for eg? whon mixed in cakoa or other products of the oven, they would hardly hard-ly rogard it as a breakfast food. A soup mado of albumen might make a good substitute for tho prosont thrcc-ininute thrcc-ininute boiled breakfast egg, but it requires re-quires a stretch of tho jinagin.ition to figure how lovers of fried eggs could secure that dolicaoy uudor an albumen rerime. Aloat olbnmon is made in Gerznany and if tho Democrats remain in powor it is probable that in several years from now albumen will bo b'etter known than eggs. Then whon ahouee-wifo ahouee-wifo goos into tho grocery store and (alls lor albumen hor grocor will, if ho doesn't happen to havo any, tell her that ho baB a few oggs which are "just as good." Food officials also think that dried milk mav havo its day if milk continues con-tinues to soar in pricoj as tho local milk dispensers threaten it will. This has been on tho market for several years and is used extensively by candy-makers candy-makers for making chocolates. Mired with water this powder resembles milk and tastes moro liko roal milk than does the ovaporatod kind. It is guaranteed, guar-anteed, however, not to raise cream. Cause of Shortage. Ancnt tho high cost of eggs and tho failure of hens to lay, experts of the department of agriculturo have, according accord-ing to a dispatch yesterday from Washington, Wash-ington, discovered that tho weather has been responsible. The dispatch follows: fol-lows: WASHINGTON, Dec. P. Relief from tho prohibitive ogg prices is in sight, tho experts of tho dopartment of agriculture agri-culture announce in a spocial report on tho subject, becauso the pullets all ovor tho country havo begun to lay. Information Infor-mation reaching tho acpartmont is that already poultry ownore aro reporting a .50 per cout egg production. Tho exports say this chango of heart on tho part of tho aristocrats of tho bnrnvard is not duo to tho threatened ogg boycott, but to natural conditions. Explanation of the shortage of last fall, thej" say, dates back to weather conditions of last spring and summer. "Investigation ot weather conditions," condi-tions," says tho report, "shows that tho spring was unusually wet and cold; and tho unusual drought of July further fur-ther postponed tho laying period, because be-cause both of these weather conditions affect the food supply of tho pullets. ; Tho pnllets that normally begin to lay I in tho fall havo not commenced tlicir laying until about a month later than tho usual fall laying season." Unless extreme cold wcathor should intervene, this pullot egg supply should now continue, says the report, and bring with it a gradual reduction in ogg prices. |