Frozen Vegetables Help Housewives
Received Monday, 8.55 p.m. SYDNEY," Jime 7. With fresh vegetables still dear, housewives are buying quick frozen varieties. Prices for fresh peas in pods range from Is 6d to 2s a pound but tests have revealed that housewives obtain only ahout six ounces of peas after shelling. Quick frozen peas are sold ready shelled for ls a half-pound and are ready for the pot withopt wastage. The low price of frozen foods is due to the fact that, companies. buy only in glut periods and keep the vegetables in a deep' freezing chamber until required. Other quick frozen lines are cauliflower, broccoli and stringless beans. Australian troops in Japan eat ' hundreds of tons of frozen vegetables monthly, sbipped from Sydney. Supplies for housebold purposes are still very short but the position is expected to improve.
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Chronicle (Levin), 8 June 1948, Page 5
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