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title: Cooking with Soya Flour and Grits
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cooking-with-soya-flour-and-grits-1943/
description: Four circular photographs of hands stirring soya flour, pouring milk into a bowl, adding spice and flipping pancakes, each with a one-line cooking tip.
section: Collection
---

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[![Cooking with Soya Flour and Grits, 1943 US poster: Four circular photographs of hands stirring soya flour, pouring milk into](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cooking-with-soya-flour-and-grits-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/cooking-with-soya-flour-and-grits-1943.jpg)

# Cooking with Soya Flour and Grits

Four circular photographs of hands stirring soya flour, pouring milk into a bowl, adding spice and flipping pancakes, each with a one-line cooking tip, under the headline 'Cooking with Soya Flour and Grits'. The technique is faint here; the ordinary kitchen setting and unnamed home cook are the plain-folks element in a practical instruction sheet.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Cooking with
SOYA FLOUR and GRITS

Follow directions - use the right amount in the right way.

SOYA FLOUR
SALT

Soya packs down.... stir it up before using.

Be sure to use enough liquid.

SPICE
SALT
SPICE
MO[illegible]

Be generous with seasonings.

Soya browns quickly.

For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.
U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1943-O-55[illegible]

"Get Acquainted with Soya Flour and Grits" - Posters ...... No. 2
BUREAU OF HUMAN NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
```

[← Control depends on 4 contact points each about as big as the palm of your hand!](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/control-depends-on-4-contact-points-aaa-1943/) [American-Czechoslovak Relations →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/cz-american-czechoslovak-relations-leaflet-1943/)

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