| Description | Lists committee members present, plus Jordan Lloyd. Lists committee business, including the appointment of a sub-committee to deal with the question of white bread for invalids -- appointment of a sub-committee to calculate maximum prices for food staples, at the Food Controller's request -- consideration of a letter from Alfred Bigland pointing out that [cocoa butter] is already being fully used in chocolate and suggesting that prohibiting its export to France might not 'be good policy' -- agreement that Hardy should arrange for trials of cocoa butter used in cake baking -- appointment of a committee to consider the issue of products from Jamaica -- a letter on an alleged German discovery on the extraction of oil and albumen from grain, and the committee's agreement that this was no genuine discovery -- adpoting of some figures on the food supply for 1917, to send to Downing Street -- consideration of a letter on army rations, and an account from Jordan Lloyd on her experiments on rope in bread. p97-101. |