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Show I Meringue Adds Much 1 1 to Dessert In some ways a cream pie is easier to make than a custard pie. The shell is baked first, the filling is made in the double boiler, and then a meringue is spread over the top and nicely browued. For "company" purposes a dessert with a meringue seems a little lit-tle more attractive than just plain pie. The bureau of home economics of the United States Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture furnishes the recipe. 1 pint milk or thin 2 egga cream 2 tbs. butter if 4 tbs. flour milk Is used U cup sugar 6 tep. vanilla Yt tsp. salt Pastry Heat the milk or cream in a double boiler. Mix the flour, sugar, and salt thoroughly. Pour some of the hot liquid into this, mix well, and return to the double boiler. Stir until thickened, thick-ened, cover and cook for 15 minutes. Beat well. Pour some of this mixture into the beaten egg yolks, and add to the rest of the mixture with the butter but-ter and vanilla. Pour into a baked pie crust and let stand for a few minutes. In the meantime make a meringue from the beaten egg whites four tablespoonfuls sugar and a few grains of salt and a drop or two of vanilla. Spread over the pie filling to the edge of the crust and bake in a very moderate oven (325 degrees Fahrenheit) for 15 to 20 minutes, or until lightly browned. To make a banana cream pie, add sliced bananas to the custard mixture after it is cooked, cover with the meringue and bake in the usual way. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) WNU Service. "A housewife with limited budget should be enabled, under the terms of the McNary-Mapes amendment to the food and drugs act, to buy a substandard substand-ard product within the reach of her pocketbook which will carry the nutritive nutri-tive if not the esthetic value of standard canned foods provided she reads intelligently the labeling required re-quired by the amendment to appear on the product," said Dr. P. B. Dunbar, Dun-bar, assistant chief of the federal food and drug administration, addressing a joint session of the National Can-ners' Can-ners' association and the National Wholesale Grocers' association, held at Chicago, in connection with the National Canners' association's twenty-fourth annual convention. "And she should be able to buy that food without suspicion that she Is purchasing purchas-ing something unfit for her family's consumption." The McNary-Mapes amendment, Doctor Doc-tor Dunbar explained, authorizes the I secretary of agriculture to establish standards for canned food products excluding only meat and meat foods subject to- the meat inspection act, and canned milk and to promulgate a form of label designation for substandard sub-standard foods coming within the jurisdiction jur-isdiction of the amendment. "When the President, on July 8, 1930, signed the McNary-Mapes amendment amend-ment to the food and drugs act, the. food and drug administration was assigned as-signed a task of tremendous magnitude," magni-tude," said Doctor Dunbar. "The administration ad-ministration recognized the merits of this legislation, however, and was willing will-ing to assume the added burden of enforcing it. The administration believed be-lieved that the measure offered a materially ma-terially Increased protection to the American consumer of canned foods and likewise offered a protection to canners agaiust the damaging competition com-petition of low-grade products. This initial conviction of the administration administra-tion has not changed. "The amendment is remarkable as a piece of legislation for two reasons," said Doctor Dunbar. "It is the first step taken by congress In the direction of granting the secretary of agriculture agricul-ture formal authority to make aud promulgate legal standards for food products. Second, it is an outstanding example of a voluntary imposition, by a great Industry upon itself, of additional addi-tional and drastic legislative requirements. require-ments. The amendment was enacted solely through the initiative and effort of the canning industry. "I am afraid," declared the speaker, speak-er, "that I cannot accord the canning Industry a philanthropic or wholly unselfish un-selfish Interest in the welfare of the American consumer as the only motive mo-tive for seeking this legislation. On the contrary, the canning Industry recognized In a far-sighted way the need for just such legislation If the industry itself is to prosper. That recognition grew from the appreciation apprecia-tion of the fact that the consumer's best interests are parallel with those of the business. So It was by deliberate delib-erate design, not by mere chance, that a definite recognition of the consumer's consum-er's Interests being paramount was incorporated into the measure." |