The Modern Method of Preparing Delightful Foods

Ida Bailey Allen tells the story of American corn — Plymouth breakfasts to the Great War — and hangs a day's four meals on it, for the company that made Karo and Mazola.

Corn Modernized

2 recipes in this part of The Modern Method of Preparing Delightful Foods.

Corn Modernized

TO-DAY the average national corn crop is three billion bushels a year, almost thirty bushels a person. Why is it a leading grain?

Syrups

The two great body energizers, starch and sugar, are so closely related that they are classified under the great heading, Carbothat they…

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