Balanced daily diet

Promotes Crisco shortening in balanced diet essential for health. Introduction quotes Sir Henry Thompson, an English authority, and Prof. Harry Snyder, University of Minnesota, author of Human food, on the importance of fat in diet. Credits dietary laws with longevity of Jewish race. Includes scientific information on nutrition; product packaging, factory exterior and interiors, and serving suggestion illustrations; monthly simple and elaborate menus using 5 symbols keyed to nutritional information; list of foods rich in fats, carbohydrates, proteins, and mineral matter; high altitude cooking instructions; index; and offer of A calendar of dinners and of The whys of cooking, each for 25 cents in stamps or coin. Sample recipes: eggplant fried in batter, eggs Beauregard, corn-and-oyster fritters, French bread, and codfish supreme.