Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Domestic Front. Franklin Roosevelt might have preferred to keep his eyes turned east all last week. He could not. On the home front, long neglected, another kind of crisis clamored for attention. Food shortages were a national bellyache. Meat and butter rationing had begun. Farmers begged and pleaded for help (see p. 12). Franklin Roosevelt had "solved" the food problem just three months ago, by transforming Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard into a Food Czar. Now he gave Wickard's power to hardheaded Chester C. Davis...
...that leads to auction sales and in the abandonment of farms. We can find it in the undue killing of dairy cattle. We can find it in the shops without supplies for the housewife for days at a time. We can find it in local famines of meat or butter or potatoes or something else. We can find it in the epidemic of black markets all over the country...
...fragitans), grown in heavy cream and buttermilk, which continue to work in hydrogenated vegetable oils. The culture includes natural annatto extract (for coloring) and salt. Two ounces of Extrin will permeate ten pounds of shortening. Together with two ounces of salt, a quart of water and 3 Ib. of butter, this makes a mixture which can legally be called "butter spread." But even without any butter, Extrinized shortening is almost impossible to tell from the real thing...
...principle.of Extrin was stumbled on by Food Chemist William Kugelmann. He developed it as a flavoring for bakers which, unlike most butter flavoring, would not be lost in cooking. So far, Extrin has been sold only to restaurants, bakeries and hospitals. But last week Extrin's president Robert S. Sweet was looking toward broader markets...
...Natural butter gets its characteristic flavor from the bacteria present in cream during its ripening...