Scotsman Archive: Food products: bacon alternatives, 19 December, 1939

Published on Friday 18 December 2009 22:10

VARIOUS interesting developments are taking place providing alternatives to foods in which there is a temporary shortage. In connection with the production of mutton-bacon, a difficulty has been the utilisation of those parts of the carcase not suitable for making into bacon.

New products, such as mutton roll, are therefore being prepared. Like other tinned foods, the mutton roll is sold ready for the table, but it can be cooked in the same way as bacon. There might be considerable development in the sale of beef ham, a product well known in the West of Scotland but not extensively sold in the East. Discussing the butter position, an Edinburgh grocer said the public should remember that the present allocation was only 50 per cent of the normal. The best solution of the shortage was for the housewives to mix butter and margarine at home. The trader remarked that in Scotland the demand had been for extremely lean bacon, but that under present circumstances the public were having to take a heavier type.

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