SUGAR FOR MARROW JAM.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1843, 22 June 1918, Page 1

SUGAR FOR MARROW JAM.

RHUBARB TO BE REGARDED AS FRUIT. The vegetable marrow will be grown in every allotment in Britain this year, because the Ministry of Pood has decided that marrow is fruit—or may be so considered at the discretion of the local food committees.

If marrow is regarded as fruit it will come under the sugar for jam scheme, and gardeners who do not own a solitary currant bush or raspberry (nine hope to concentrate on marrows with a view to preservation.

It is officially stated that rhubarb is also a fruit, but the allotment holder who specialises in pumpkins will be unable to obtain extra sugar. The Director of Sugar Distribution desires it to be clearly understood — That there is no intention in the early future to reduce the amount of the weekly domestic ration of sugar.

That in making special allotments of sugar through the local food committees under the scheme for providing fruit growers with sugar for domestic preserving no account will be taken of any sugar saved out of the weekly ration. That the saving of sugar out of the domestic; ration for jam making not only does not constitute hoarding, but is a course which is eminently desirable in the public interest under existing circumstances.