13 OCTOBER 1917, Page 3

The Food Controller has authorized bakers to use potatoes in

making bread. They may mix not more than one pound of potatoes with every seven pounds of flour. The Food Controller recommends the dilution of the wheat flour with maize, which, the exports MY, combines well with the potatoes. Country housewives will probably smile at the general discovery that the potato can be used in bread-making. Many of them have always mixed potatoes with their flour because they think that it improves the flavour of the loaf. Like M. Jonrdain, who talked prose without knowing it, the rural housewife has been unconsciously practising in her kitchen the very latest precepts of food economy.