The United States Food Administration asks you to comply strictly with the following rules.

Owing to the constant changes in the Food situation these rules must be revised from time to time. You are requested to note such revisions in the daily press, and to conform to them.

The recipes and directions contained in this book have been compiled for the purpose of helping you to conform to these new food situations patriotically and easily.

All Kinds Of Food Should Be Economically Used.

Hoarding: No Food Should Be Hoarded

Hoarding is the holding, contracting or arranging for food by any person in excess of his reasonable requirements for use or consumption by himself and dependents for a reasonable time. This does not refer to stocks of home grown vegetables and home canned or preserved fruits.

Wheat

All householders who can possibly do so should entirely Eliminate The Use Of Wheat.

Householders who are obliged to use wheat should not use more than a total of 1 1/2 pounds of wheat flour or prepared wheat, in any form, per person per week. This includes wheat flour in Victory Bread, and the wheat flour or prepared wheat in crackers, pastry, macaroni, breakfast or other foods.

Victory Bread is bread manufactured by bakers under the rules of the United States Food Administration. In estimating flour consumption, 1 3/4 pounds of Victory Bread may be considered equal to 1 pound of wheat flour.

In buying wheat flour an equal weight of other cereals as substitutes for wheat flour must be bought pound for pound. This is the 50-50 Rule. In buying mixed flours, the substitutes in them may be counted so that a smaller proportion of substitutes may be bought with these flours than with white flour. In buying graham and whole wheat flours (containing not less than 95 per cent of the entire wheat) 6/10 pounds of substitutes shall be purchased with every pound of such flours.

Wheat Flour Substitutes Are Hominy, Corn Grits, Cornmeal, Corn Flour, Edible Cornstarch, Barley Flour, Rolled Oats, Oatmeal, Rice, Rice Flour, Buckwheat Flour, Potato Flour, Sweet Potato Flour, Soya Bean Flour, And Feterita Flour And Meals.

Householders in towns and cities may not buy more than 1/8 of a barrel of flour at any one time. Householders in the country may not buy more than 1/4 of a barrel of flour at any one time.

Sugar

Householders should not use more than 1/2 pound of sugar per person per week. Householders in cities may not buy more than 2 pounds of sugar at any one time. Householders in the country may not buy more than 5 pounds of sugar at any one time.

In addition to the above, however, sugar may be used for home canning, and will be available to the householder for that purpose upon his signing a certificate that such sugar is desired and will be used only for that purpose.

Meats

Meats of all kinds and poultry and more particularly beef, should be most economically used, eliminating all waste. Purchases of these products should be restricted and the quantity prepared for each meal reduced.

Consumption of all meats, including poultry, should be reduced as nearly as possible to 2 pounds per week per person over four years of age.

Milk

Fresh milk and milk in evaporated and condensed form, and cheese, may be liberally used.

Butter

Butter may be used for normal consumption.

Ice

No more ice should be used than is absolutely necessary.

To Save Transportation Local Supplies Should Be Grown And Used.