4 thoughts on “Sugar: Don’t Waste It — But Buy Extra and Use All You Can”

1. 1 lb. sugar – 4 quarts of preserves! And that is how we won the War!! And why we have so many dentists in Utah and how Mormons developed a sweet tooth (or too) which we now consume in candy instead of canned (bottled) fruit.

   And I have no problem with sugar consumption being a patriotic duty.

2. “two”

3. Did the original cotton containers become dresses for little girls?

4. Ha! I wonder how many know what you’re talking about?

   I’ve seen pictures of U&I sacked sugar, but never seen anything but white (or, I suppose, unbleached) sacks with the U&I brand and weight printed on them. So I wouldn’t think they were used for that very often — but I also bet that they were often used for something rather than merely thrown away.

   (If you weren’t aware of it, large feed and flour sacks — cotton — were often printed with flowers or stripes or other designs, in bright colors, intended for frugal farm wives to open the seams, wash and iron, and then use as any other fabric for aprons or little girls’ everyday dresses. Plain flour sacks were used for dish towels. What a different world, when even the mills that sold horse feed would cooperate with farm wives that way!)

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