126 THE BEE-KEFPERS' REVIEW 



No Substitute Used in Place of Honey by the Bakers. 



The following correspondence will explain : 



Remus, Mich., January 9th, 1913. 

 National Biscuit Company, Chicago. 



Gentlemen: — There is a "rumor'' now and then in the bee jour- 

 nals that the bakers are using a substitute for honey in their baked 

 goods where honey was formerly used. We would consider it a spe- 

 cial favor if you would tell us if you are using a substitute for 

 honey where previously you used honey. Do you know of any bak- 

 ers who do use a substitute for honey in their baking? 



Could you, without too much trouble, tell us how much honey 

 you used during 1912, also for a few years back. 



If you will kindly provide this information, will see that your 

 company get proper credit through the Review. 



Kindly accept thanks in advance for this favor. 



Yours truly, 



E.^D. TOWNSEND. 



N.\TioxAr. Biscuit Company, 



Washington Boulevard and Morgan Street, 



Chicago, Jan. 14, 1913. 

 Mr. E. D. Townsend, Remus, i\Iich. 



Dear Sir: — Responding to your kind favor of the 9tli inst., we 

 note there is a rumor that bakers are using a substitute for honey in 

 their baked goods. Don't you know that there is a pure food law in 

 this country that if you sell goods and call them "Honey Cake" or 

 "Honey" anything else, they have got to be made out of honey? 



I never heard of any Ijakeries using any substitute for honey. 

 We certainly never did in our company, and I do not believe any- 

 body else does in the baking business. Of course, you know we use 

 large quantities of molasses, vastly more than we do of honey, and 

 some people might say that was a substitute for honey, when such 

 is not the case at all. 



When the price of honey gets too high all bakeries naturally in 

 getting up new goods would use something besides honey for sweet- 

 ening purposes, and then when honey gets low again they would go 

 back to using it once more, also using the word "honey" in connec- 

 tion with the goods. 



The consumption of honey by our bakeries in this country is 

 very large, just how large I have no means of knowing. 



Believe me, with kindest regards. 

 Yours very truly, 



Naiional Biscuit Company, 

 H. J. Evans. Purchasing Dept. 



