“PERFECT RATION”

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1938, Page 8

“PERFECT RATION”

ALL-DAY MEALS OF VITAMIN BISCUITS. SOLUTION OF WAR TIME FOOD PROBLEM. Titian-haired Countess Hamon, widow of Cheiro the Seer, has also visions. They are of a practical nature. She claims to have found the solution of Britain’s food problem in time of emergency. In her Half-Moon street flat, London, recently she told a reporter of her years of research for the “perfect ration.” “Interested since a child in chemistry generally, I decided to apply it particularly to food preservation. In my laboratory in California I first experimented with fruit and fish, and found a process which keeps them indefinitely in all their goodness. “From that it was just a step to producing in biscuit form a food that will solve all our difficulties in case of war and air raids. “Seven of these biscuits, costing 9d, will keep the hardest-worked navvy going for a day. Four and a-half per day are enough for sedentary workers. “These biscuits, which contain every vitamin necessary, can be stored and kept if need be for 20 years, and are still good. No more food queues if we should ever be at war. “My partner, retired naval commander and Home Office official, and I have splendid reports from medical officers of health. “Even here" —and she waved her arm round the small sitting-room—“I could store enough food in time to last the ehtire population of Westminster for a fortnight. “My partner and I, working 16 hours

a day. lived three days on four and a-half of these biscuits and nothing else. “I cannot at this moment say more than that the Government is very interested in my discovery.”