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Show An expert, who should know what he is talking about, says that oleomargarine can now be made for 5 or 6 cents a pound. The latest ingredient used is gelatine, which possesses an unequalled power of absorbing water and enables the makers to dispense with stearine, formerly used to give the stuff hardness. '. The quality of all kinds of "bogus butter" is getting worse. At first clean beef fat was used. Competition and a fall in prices brought common fat into use and this has now given place to pork grease, cotton seed and sesame oil. And there is an astonishing astonish-ing amount of the stuff being made and sold. |