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Show A Dehydrated Foods Interest Housekeepers V jTVEHYDRATION is the process of ill removing water from vegetables Iff and fruits; and virtually all J vegetables and fruits can bo do-'t do-'t hydrated and mado to keep indefinite- j i 'J". Tho products are thoroughly dried J by hot air; before being used they must bo soaked again in water and ; the experts of this dehydrating proc-;;l proc-;;l ess cjaim that thero- is no loss of i taste, color or flavor In foods so ;i tated. x $ It is said that if tho war goc3 on j much longer a largo percentage of )i dehydrated food must be eaten or tho Iorld will go hungry. During tho plvil War in tho sixties the prcsorv-Jn5 prcsorv-Jn5 of food in tin cans began to be Bn enormous industry; tho present is likely to, develop tho process dehydration and establish the merits of this method of food con-'ervatton con-'ervatton in largo quantities. t A recent exhibit of dehydrated yds at the National Lcaguo for omen's Service aroused much ln-l ln-l terest and was most instructive to tho j! toany women who attended. By this j-ftttv metho'd of preserving food every r 'crap- even waste may be saved and t- utilized. For Instance, garbage is dried and ground up, bones and all, to mako chicken feed. Fruits are preserved without sugar an important import-ant consideration just now and as an example of the wonderful conservation conser-vation methods of this process, ten bushels of spinach can bo concentrated concen-trated to ono bushol, tho bushol becoming be-coming ten again when Immersed in water. |