Word: buttered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...specific: when butter or cheese from Holland enters this country, it takes the place of our own dairy products...
...Chicago and Manhattan produce markets last week, the wholesale price of butter was down 10? from last year (to around 67? a lb.) and still melting. For the first time since April 1951, the Agriculture Department was buying up surplus butter in an effort to stabilize the market. In the last six weeks, said Agriculture, it had bought up 1,200,000 lbs. for $818,000. Butter dealers freely predicted that the department might have to buy up 20 to 40 million lbs. in the next couple of months...
Chief reason for the butter glut was the big increase in sales of colored oleomargarine, now permitted in 42 states.* In prewar days, per capita consumption of oleo was only 2.9 lbs. a year compared to 16.7 lbs. of butter. Today it is 7.7 lbs. compared to 8.7 lbs. for butter. This year U.S. margarine output is expected to hit at least 1¼ billion lbs., topping butter production for the first time in the nation's history. Another reason for the surplus of butter is increased imports of dried milk (up 90% so far this year...
...butter problem be solved? Answered an executive of one of the Midwest's biggest creameries last week: "Butter never will make it unless they yank out the supports and let butter go to a competitive 50?-or wherever supply & demand pegs it . . . Who can pay 70? a lb. for butter when you can get margarine for 30??" Such a proposal would hardly sit well with the dairy farmers. But many a butter dealer last week thought that something could be learned from the experience of potato farmers. Since supports were dropped from potatoes nearly 18 months ago, the market...
...Cookies: 1½ cups sifted flour, ¼ teaspoon each of soda, salt, vanilla; 1½ cup each of butter or shortening, and brown sugar; 1 egg; 1 egg yolk; 1 egg white; ⅛ teaspoon maple flavoring; 1 cup pecan halves. Sift together flour, soda and salt. Cream butter. Add sugar gradually, then egg and egg yolk; beat well. Add flavorings. Add dry ingredients gradually; mix thoroughly. Arrange pecan halves in groups of three on greased baking sheets to resemble head and hind legs of turtle. Mold teaspoonsful of dough into balls. Dip bottoms in egg white and press...