Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1917 — Now Make Dried Soup. [ARTICLE]

Now Make Dried Soup.

One of the beneficial effects of the recent scare over a threatened shortage of tin cans was an extended investigation into other possible methods of preserving food. The canned soup manufacturers were among the most earnest seekers, for they were threatened with having their tin supply cut off at an early date. They have worked out a process for putting up a dried soup in powdered form in containers of heavy wax paper. Similar systems of drying and packing vegetables are already in use in Europe, but the soup idea represents American enterprise. Apparently, it will not come on the market because tin cans are going to be more plentiful than was