Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago an independent California concern went a step farther toward simplified wine making. They put on the market a patented grape concentrate in solid form about the size of a pound of print butter. Known as Vino Sano, selling at $2 each, these nonalcoholic wine bricks were flavored sherry, champagne, port, claret, muscatel, et al. Instructions came in the form of warnings against dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, adding sugar, shaking daily and decanting after three weeks. Unless the buyer eschewed these processes, 13%, wine would be produced. Vino Sano's "Don'ts" were...
...Minister is most generous with them as his sympathy goes out to the per son who has never tasted the lusciousness of an American baked potato split through the center while it is steaming hot and filled with a huge piece of fresh, sweet butter...
...crackers in cartons instead of bulk. The campaign worked. The public obeyed. Uneeda became one of the great U. S. trade-names. Today National is the world's biggest biscuit baker, has 84 plants in 29 States. It also makes bread, dog biscuits, Shredded Wheat, gingerbread goodies, peanut butter, zwieback, macaroni, pretzels. Its assets come to $138,000,000 of which $38,000.000 is working capital. Last year it earned $22,800,000, most of which was paid out in dividends to about 23.000 shareholders. It is one of those select companies which are in the First National...
...busy bakers baking. And in the art department he may see draughtsmen carefully designing new products, submitting them to cutters for mechanical approval. For while a good 50% of the company's business is in staples with large consumption (Lorna Doone Shortbreads, Slim Jim Pretzel Sticks, Holland Rusk, Butter Wafers, Snow Peaks) much of it goes into 500 varieties of biscuits and cookies which enjoy the public's favor briefly and are discontinued, replaced. Last year Nabisco withdrew 150 varieties, sent out a similar number of new ones. The problems involved are many in addition to those of cooking...
Zenzinov got along well with the northern natives, who thought he was a wonderworker. None of them had ever seen a lamp before. "No one knew how bread was raised. . . . They had never seen milk or butter. . . . Neither the women nor the children had ever beheld a living tree." (Their firewood was flotsam from the Indigirka River.) The natives had plenty of caviar but did not know how to treat it, usually gave it to the dogs...