Cooking Recipes; For the use of FEDERAL SURPLUS COMMODITIES
Jim Thorpe, PA: Carbon County Commissioners, c1959. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Staple bound, printed on both sides of the sheets. Format is approximately 8.5 inches by 11 inches. Rare surviving copy. 18 pages (including 2 that are blank). Cover is worn and soiled. Some wear at edges and page discoloration. The last page with printing has the date of May 12, 1959 and is information on labeling from the UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE Food Distribution Division which was located in New York City. In addition to recipes there is a table that shows how much milk powder to use to replace various amounts of bottle milk. The recipes include some for vegetable dishes, desserts, cheese and meat dishes, bread and muffins, and rice. There is also information on how to use dried whole egg solids (stabilized) in family meals. The Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation was one of the so-called alphabet agencies set up in the United States during the 1930s as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. Created in 1933 as the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, its name was changed by charter amendment on November 18, 1935. In 1937 its administration was placed within the United States Department of Agriculture. In 1940 it was combined with other USDA initiatives to form the Surplus Marketing Administration. It was abolished February 23, 1942, with the creation of the Agricultural Marketing Administration. The purpose of the agency was to divert agricultural commodities from the open market, where prices were depressed by surplus farm products, to destitute families. As of 2012, the Federal purchase and distribution of surplus food still continues, now under the auspices of the Emergency Food Assistance Program. In summer 1933, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration tried to boost the wholesale price of agricultural produce through an artificial scarcity initiative, in which crops were plowed up or left to rot and six million pigs were killed and discarded. The public outcry over this waste of resources led to the October 1933 establishment of the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, which aimed to divert commodities such as apples, beans, canned beef and cotton to local relief organizations. In December 1933, the agency distributed three million tons of coal to the unemployed of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa and in September 1934 shipped 692,228,274 pounds of foodstuffs to the unemployed in 30 US states. On November 18, 1935, its name was changed to the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation, and the Secretary of Agriculture, Henry A. Wallace at that time, the head of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, and the governor of the Farm Credit Administration were placed on its board of directors. The Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation was the first federal contribution to the school lunch programs and the first step toward the national school lunch program. In March 1937, there were 3,839 schools receiving commodities for lunch programs serving 342,031 children daily. Two years later, the number of schools participating had grown to 14,075 and the number of children had risen to 892,259. Condition: Fair.
Keywords: Federal Surplus Commodities, Food Substitution, Dried Whole Egg Solids, Powdered Milk, Cooking, Baking, Recipes, Nutrition, Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing
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