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The list of food sampled is given below, together with samples of
ice cream and ice lollies.
Brandy 1 Meat pie 1
Gin 2 Milk 21
Sherry 2 Minced beef 1
Whisky 8 Mincemeat 1
Apricots—dried 1 Mixed peel 1
Arrowroot 1 Mustard pickle 1
Bacon 6 Orange Crush 1
Beef suet—shredded 2 Pears—dried 1
Brawn 1 Pepper 1
Bread and Butter 2 Porridge oats 2
Butter 14 Prepared garden peas 1
Coffee 3 Raisins 1
Corned Beef 2 Salmon spread 1
Crystallised Ginger 1 Sponge mixture 2
Curry Powder 2 Stewing steak 1
Dandelion Coffee 1 Sugar 1
Double Cream 3 Tea 6
Figs 1 Tongue 2
Fish Cakes 1 Veal and ham pie 1
Fish Fingers 1 Yoghourt 1
Flavour—cherry 1 Boric Acid ointment 2
Flavour—orange 1 Brewers yeast tablets 1
Flour—self-raising 2 Castor oil 1
Fruit salad 1 Charcoal tablets 1
Glace cherries 1 Chlorodyne tablets 2
Gravy browning 1 Cod liver oil 2
Ground almonds 1 Gees linctus 2
Ground ginger 1 Glaubers salts 1
Ground rice 3 Glucose 1
Ham 1 Halibut oil capsules 1
Hot milk 1 Iron ielloids 1
Ice Cream 8 Menthol and eucalyptol
Ice lollies 3 pastilles 1
Jam—plum 1 Oil of peppermint 1
Jam—raspberry 1 Olive oil 2
Lard 3 Rheumatism tablets 1
Lemon juice 2 Soda mints 1
Luncheon meat 3 Sulphur ointment 1
Eight samples of ice cream were submitted to the Public Analysts
to ascertain the fat content of the mixture. The samples contained
fat to the following extent:
13.5 percent; 12.4 per cent; 7.8 per cent; 12.9 per cent; 10.2 per cent;
13.2 percent; 12.5 per cent and 11.2 per cent.
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