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wife can understand, is no simple undertaking. We must recognize 

 first the fact that, desirr'ble as nuts are eaten raw, there are a great 

 number of people whose use of nuts would be very limited indeed if 

 we depended upon the consumption in raw form. We must recognize 

 that unless we show women how to use nuts in the main dish of the 

 meal they will be all too likely to serve them at the end of an /ilready 

 sufficient meal, and because of the very high food content of tl)e nuts 

 and their riclmess this course leads to the incorrect impression that 

 nuts arc difficult of digestion. We cannot hope to lead women to make 

 a larger use of nuts in the family diet, and at the same time to avoid 

 their erroneous use at the end of an already heavy meal, unless we 

 show how they should be used earlier in the meal. 



This book entitled "800 Proved Pecan Recipes" shows how pecans 

 may be used in varied ways covering every need from soup to nuts. 

 Its real value is based first, on the proved food value of the pecan, 

 second, on the fact that everyone of these recipes has been submitted 

 by a woman who has used it and found it good; then has been checked, 

 tested, and re-checked by skilled dietitians. We call these PROVED 

 recipes because they have been first proved in practice by the women 

 who submitted them, then proved by experts in nutrition in our 

 laboratory. • 



I make the statement that this is not just a book of 800 recipes; 

 that it is a most important contribution to the health and welfare of 

 the homes into which it will go. I am not swayed by any pride of 

 authorship in saying that. I did not write the recipes in this book. 

 The Laboratory did not write them. They originated with over 5,000 

 women located in all parts of the United States, in Canada, South 

 America, Europe and Asia. 



About a year and a half ago we advertised, offering prizes for 

 those recipes using pecan nuts which liad proved best in the homes 

 of those submitting them. For years we had been hearing of the many 

 uses to which pecans had been put, particularly in southern homes, 

 and by tedious work over the years had gathered less than a hundred 

 non-duplicating recipes of wliich about half proved to have real merit. 

 We hoped to get possibly another hundred or two recipes in response 

 to our offer of jjrizes. Before the contest closed we had over 21,000 

 recipes in hand awaiting judgment, which had been submitted by 

 5,083 housewives in widely scattered territory. 



