Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1918 — HUMBLE PRUNE TAKES THE PLACE OF SUGAR [ARTICLE]

HUMBLE PRUNE TAKES THE PLACE OF SUGAR

Derby, Conn. —The sometimes despised and often ridiculed pru.-e has come into, its own here. When the sugar famine struck the town someone discovered that the sugar in a dried prune was sufficient to give a semblance of sweetening to a cupful of tea or coffee.’ The prune dropped in a cupful of coffee is soon rendered soft by the heat and the sugar and sweet is extracted in a short time. It is claimed that the caffeine in the coffee offsets the taste of the prune so that the process is not objectionable in any way. It is being extensively tried here by many persons.