Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1918 — NEW WAR FOOD FOR GERMANY [ARTICLE]

NEW WAR FOOD FOR GERMANY

“Lupine Bread” to Be Next Substitute Kaiser's Slaves Must . Swallow. Amsterdam.—Germany Is threatened with a new war food called lupine bread. To work a process for converting the lupine, a leguminous, plant, into food for men and beast, on a large scale, a company has been formed -at Chemnitz, Saxony, with a capital of 3,000,000 marks. / ' The lupine was held In no particular esteem until about fifty years ago, when a German chemist discovered A process by which the bitter taste of the plant was eliminated and the vegetable fdt and albumen which it contains were made serviceable for human consumption. Now a German food expert has taken up and perfected the old recipe. It is said that lupine meal makes quite a palatable and “bread,” ’ while the refuse Is excelltent food for cattle. The German government, it is announced, Is about to take the lupine cultivation under Its official wing.