Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1915 — Corn as Food. [ARTICLE]

Corn as Food.

Sending a brigade of cooks to Eqrope to teach the natives there to eat cori\ is only renewing an experiment tried in tinifs of peace. ‘‘Corn Cake" Murjihy gained immortal note by hi s efforts along this line, while Clark E.iCarr and later Maurice Egan did much to give the Europeans a notion of the delights' of corn as a comestible. Those apostles of a new gastronomy for the people of Europe met. with the obstacle that has so far proved insurmountable. Prince arid peasant alike' associate corn . with stock feed, and, therfore, decline it. But corn is really a food for the gods; in niitritive value it is but litbehind whole wheat flour, con taming within 6 per cent as much carbohydrates and within 3 per cent as much protein. Much of the food value of wheat is sacrificed in preparation of flour to the end that our dainty appetites may be piqued by the snowy whiteness of the bread: Thus, bulk for buTkj good corn bread is quite as nutritious as is the wheaten loaf. 1

Many ways of cooking corn are known, but the simplest are the better. A sturdy race of pioneers throve on mu3h and milk and corn pone and hoe cake. Civilization and luxury have led the children of these pioneers to look with disdain on corn, and to prefer to secure its great health-giving properties through other mediums. We have been taking our corn by way of pork and beef Omaha Bee.