BUTTER SUBSTITUTE
DOMINION PRODUCTION FOR USE OF TROOPS IN TROPICS. ANNOUNCEMENT BY MINISTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The increasing demand experienced during the present war for essential foodstuffs to be made available in new forms more adaptable to rapidly changing conditions was referred to by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Barclay, in an interview last evening. He revealed what had been done in New Zealand to produce a substitute for butter, an initial order for which has been placed with the Dairy Research Institute of the Scientific and Industrial Research Department. As an example of this demand, Mr Barclay said that in order to overcome the difficulty of restricted refrigerated shipping space, scientists in New Zealand and other exporting countries had worked out a satisfactory method for the manufacture on a large scale of dry meat and dry butterfat, which could be carried in ordinary cargo space. “Recently,” he said, “ a new problem was placed before the technical staff of the Dairy Research .Institute. It has been found that ordinary butter cannot satisfactorily be handled by armed forces operating in tropical countries owing to the fact that the high temperature causes the butter to melt and become quite unworkable. A request was made to ascertain whether it would be possible for New Zealand to supply a substitute for butter which would consist of an edible, pleasant and nourishing fat which could be spread on bread and generally used in the same way as butter, but at the same time one which would have a much higher melting point and therefore stand up to tropical conditions. “The Dairy Research Institute in a very short time has produced such a substitute, which they hope will prove successful. It consists of 60 per cent pure butterfat, 20 pci cent stearine (which id a pure beef fat) and 20 per cent of dried milk. This combination remains spreadable at temperatures up to 105 deg. F., is highly nourishing, particularly because of the incorporation of dried milk, and has an extremely pleasant flavour. “An initial order has now been placed with the institute for a considerable quantity of this fat spread, and if it proves successful in the tropical areas of the Pacific the way is open for New Zealand to produce, in large quantities, an essential foodstuff in an entirely new form.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1942, Page 5
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