Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1912 — BEWARE OF FROZEN EGG [ARTICLE]

BEWARE OF FROZEN EGG

The Department of Agriculture Warn* Against Cheap Pies and Cakes. . * The department of agriculture has issued a solemn warning to the American public to beware of “the fried frozen egg” and the “boiled dried eggs.” These preparations, according to the department, flourish around local' itles where fresh eggs are hard to obtain. The department insists that the traffic in these unlawful eggs has increased greatly in the past few years. The warning states that there is no particular harm in freezing a fried egg or drying a boiled egg if the same is done under the proper sanitary conditions and before the egg obtains too venerable an age. It warns the public further that such eggs , appear in cakes and pies, where their Inferiority may be successfully concealed. ,