Get the Good... From Fats
Home-economics chart no. 10 of a set of 10: photographs of bacon frying, pieces browning in a skillet and butter melting over hot water, with cooking rules. The technique is faint: plain kitchen scenes shown as everyday practice.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Home Economics
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Themes
- Home front, Health
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Home Economics. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-867L (NAID 514371).
Text on the object
Get the Good... FROM FATS Keep heat moderate.... × Don't let fat smoke and burn.... Burned fat is harder to digest. When frying in deep or shallow fat, brown lightly. Melt butter or other table fats over hot water for sauce. × Don't let bubble and boil.... the vitamins can't take it. 10 BUREAU of HOME ECONOMICS U.S. DEPARTMENT of AGRICULTURE [emblem:] FOOD FOR FREEDOM [imprint:] For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D. C., Price 25c per set of 10 charts [imprint:] U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1942-O-465074
