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Show beto rail i bit btmkm-" ms PORTIONS ORDERED CUT AND SERVICE IS GREATLY SIMPLIFIED Bread and Butter Limited, Meat Portions Reduced, Re-duced, Four Meals Daily Scored, Serving of More Vegetable Dinners Encouraged . 4 , by Food Heads. DRASTIC regulations aimed at restaurants and other public eating places and covering everything from the. printing of menu Cards in "plain English" to restrictions forbidding late suppers and afternoon teas will be invoked throughout the state next Monday Mon-day by V. V. Armstrong, state food administrator. In compliante with orders just received from Washington, a long list of new conservation rules for public eating houses' have been drafted and will become effective October 21. Practically all the frills of the table are to be eliminated and so railed service is to be reduced to a minimum. Elaborate banquets ban-quets are put under an Indefinite ban and the use of china, linen and silver must be reduced to the utmost simplicity. In making public the new regulations the following explanation explana-tion is given by Mr. Armstrong: ,.v. , , 0 'bread which contains at least ftO pel ! cent flour aro excepted, a well as sandwiches. Roll must not weigh, moro than on ounce each and all bakery ba-kery product a served must conform to the bakery rulings. . Toast must not bo served & gar nit tire or under meat. The butter service la to bo limited to one-half ounc per person pear meal. All cereals aro to bo oerved sparingly, spar-ingly, a they aro greatly needed by tho allies and aro Ideal food tor transport. PORTIONS REDUCED. No mora than one portion of any kind of meat or poultry should be served at any on meal, and If patrons desire It, ono mutton, lamb, veal or pork chop should be served to an order nd all portions of ham and bacon ahould bo reduced. Bacon canot bo used aa a garniture. A few fried dishes are to bo oerved aa poaaihle in order that fats may be conserved. All coarse fats aro to bo trimmed from meats before cooking to conserve them for munition and soap manufacturing. manufac-turing. No sugar Is to bo oerved unless requested; re-quested; not moro than ono teaspoon -ful or Its equivalent I to bo served per person at ono meal and ono small lump la tho eorvlco for demt lass. There are. of rouroo, to bo no ougar howls on the tables. No candies aro to be served. All Icings made from atigar. beet or can ougar aro to b eliminated nd honey, maple yrup, , oMnnnpape "Nearly f, 000, 000 aro dependent upon public sating places for their meals In America, Tho food consumption con-sumption In these places Is greater than in tho average private homo. Tho public eating places of tho nation na-tion aro therefore asked to conserve miwt strictly In order that tho final blow at tho Huns may bo struck with greater force and at a timo when It la moot needed. ! "To do this some 1.710,000 tons more food than last year must bo shipped abroad. And this food can only come from tho tables of the nation. WILL STOP WASTE. "Tho new regulations aro by no means to bo considered aa rationing, but olmply a putting to an end of a ruthleaa waste which the American public haewt before realised.'' Tho moet Important of tho neir regulations, which also apply to dining cars, steamships and clubs, aro as follows: fol-lows: i No bread or butter ahall bo served unless tho guest requeat It, and when bread and butter la aerved It muat not be put upon the table until after the first couree of tho meal la served. No broad) oerved must contain less than SO per cent substitutes and must conform strictly to tho new baking ' regulations. No mora than two ounces of Victory bread or j:olls must bo oerved per person st on meal and not more than four ounces of other breads, such as corn bread, Boston brown bread, muffins, etc. Bread , sjjrejoajjdntajnnssnrv PORTIONS ORDERED (Continued from pwga 1. pom sugar and ayrupa ar to b uaad for awawtanara. AVU COFFIi, TOO. Prash vagetables add fruits ara to ha served wherever poeaible. y Veg-atabla Veg-atabla dlnnara ara to ha far.-urad and eannad fruits and vegetables a pa red. All poaslbl frconomv la to ba axar-elaed axar-elaed In th ua of coffe In order to out down transportation needs. Th ua of cheddar or American cheeaa la to ba avoided wherever poeaible, eapeelally with cooked dlahea, eucb aa macaroni. We lah rarebits, etc.. and It la to be entirely eliminated from all free lunch counters. All turkey bene weighing leas than " T pounds and young? gobblers weighing less than 10 pounds served ar not to b - purchased - by public anting C laces until November 1. giving the Irda a chanc to Increase their weight by Thanksgiving. Ice to to be used sparingly to con-aerva con-aerva ammonia for tha manufacture of munition. FOURTH MEALS TABOO. Fourth meals, such as supper and tea a, ar declared "to be unnecessary and unpatriotic All elaborate banquets ara to be don away with and the us of china. ' linen and sliver Is to be reduced to the utmost simplicity. All menu cards ar to be simplified, simpli-fied, th ua of hors d'oeuvres, vegetables, vegeta-bles, aalada, fruits, sea foods, made-over made-over dlahes, oxtails, tongues, calves' heads, livers, kldneya, tripe, sweetbreads, sweet-breads, . brains and feet encouraged, and tha cafeterlal system wherever possible la advocated. "Plain Kngllsh" an menu cards Is also advised. No food Is to be burned, and all wast Is to be saved to feed animals r reduced to obtain fats. - No food Is to be displayed In any such manner as to causa Its de- terloratton. and no cream containing ' over 10 per cent of butter fat shall ha served. ' |
