Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1918 — Filter Peanut Oil at Home. [ARTICLE]

Filter Peanut Oil at Home.

Unrefined peanut oil can be prepared for household use by filtering through ordinary filter paper obtainable at drug stores. A Georgia woman, the wife of an oil miller, had been paying her grocer nearly $2 a - gallon for cooking oil while her husband sold his unrefined oil to a refinery for about $1.20 a gallon. She sent a small sample of the oil from her husband’s mill to the bureau of chemistry of the United States department of agriculture with the request that, if possible, she be told of a method by which it could be made suitable for household use. The filter paper method' was suggested. In a letter which dame to the department later the success of the method was described as “surpassing my best expectations.’’