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se purchased 300 tons of red palm oil from Uslaya
as a siege reserve of vitasin À precursor and some maa avallable in Stanley Camp and after a little time proved popular.
Some patients responded better to shark liver oil, some to our surprise did better on red palm oil.
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It would seem that shark liver oil and pommi:ly also red palm oil (or concentrated extracts) could be used with great success in the preparation of balanced foods in the new Fong Kong.
be experimented with anybean milk and prepared it throughout our years of internment. This product can also be used. Curde precipitated from the milk either fresh or fermented are popular with the Chinese and have high nutritive value.
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For more then two years I grew an extraordinary mixture of „eeets and bacteris on a brew of moalded stale flour and the residue after the expressing of soy bean milk from 0638. This acid brew was dispensed daily by me to an average of about 130 patients and proved of great benefit to many especially to early cases of central blindness and to patients with pellagrous moutha. Though I would not like to recomand the continued preparation of mach a brew I ́ an a believer in the use of
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Prior
the war in
Far East I made extensive enquiries both in England and in Honolulu with a view to starting a food yeast factory in Wong cong. The Defence Secretary, the la te zr.
/raser, was even keener than myself on this project and was prepared to get government to finance the
lle ausgested that I should fly to Honolulu where yeast was being grow for cattle food but nothing came of this suggestion and it was found impracticable to start a food yeast factory at that time. Molasses was cheap and available in quantity in Hong Kong and should be again and there should be no difficulty in obtaining superphosphate and somnis so there is no in uperable difficulty in establishing a food yeast factory at sme future date in long Xong
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I believe that a very palatable and highly nutritive spread for bread and biscuits can be made from an intimate mixture of peanut butter and yeast.
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the food factory mould include the following units -
A modern pennut oil press.
A food yeast unit - not necessar, imediately.
A model bakery and kitchen.
A workshop with pressure cookers, grain mill, mixers,etc.
To this factory would be supplied peanuts, soy beans, whole wheat; fish meal and shark liver oil from the Fisheries Sub-Zepartent; tomatoes, meet peppers and vegetables as required from the Agricultural Sub-Department and bones from the slaughter house.
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The products from the factory would include biscuits, bread, cakes, sandwich and biscuit spreade, soybean milk, fresh and formented anybean curd.
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