Wartime food demonstration. Demonstrating how to make a butterless, sugarless cake, home economist, Ida Lansden combines substitute ingredients before an interested group of Virginia housewives. Small groups like this are meeting daily throughout America to learn wartime ways to buy and cook, under

Wartime food demonstration. Using such substitutes as corn syrup and vegetable shortening, home economist, Ida Lansden shows a group of Alexandria, Virginia women how to bake the most succulent of sugarless, butterless cakes. This meeting is part of the wartime food demonstration program now underwa

Wartime food demonstration. Nutritionist, Ida Lansden spreading thick, sugarless frosting on the sugarless, butterless cake baked for a wartime food demonstration in Alexandria, Virginia. Demonstrations such as this are held daily all over America as housewives gather to learn how to buy and cook in

Wartime food demonstration. Following a wartime recipe step-by-step, wives of war workers in Alexandria, Virginia, learn best ways of wartime cookery in one of the nation's many wartime food demonstration meetings

Wartime food demonstration. A new and important home front activity, the wartime food demonstration is rapidly becoming a nation-wide institution. Wives of war workers in Alexandria, Virginia meet weekly to hear about best ways of ration-point spending, food conservation, etc., under the leadership

Wartime food demonstration. With wartime food shortages creating many nutritional problems for housewives, Ida Lansden, home economist, explains the necessity of preserving the vitamin content of available foods to war workers' wives in an Alexandria, Virginia housing settlement

Wartime food demonstration. Winners of the butterless, sugarless cake made at a wartime food demonstration were, Mrs. Victor Brusher and Mrs. M.L. Cuadle, both of Alexandria, Virginia. Attending all such meetings held at the housing settlement where they live, both women have found the demonstration

Wartime food demonstration. Made without sugar and butter, this piece of cake is nevertheless delicious if Mrs. W.L. Sommer's expression is an indication. The cake was baked for a wartime food demonstration in Alexandria, Virginia

Wartime food demonstration. Wartime food demonstrator Alice Burtis exhibits an "extended" meat loaf at a Washington, D.C. consumer meeting. In such gatherings now being held throughout the country, housewives are learning best methods of wartime cooking and buying