The Food Controller has now signed the Rationing Order, 1918. The main features of the new order have already been made public, in connection with the issue of the new national ration books. As regards household consumption, the changes made by the order are confined to matters of detail.
The rationed foods are ╤ sugar, butter and margarine, meat of all kinds, and lard (now rationed for the first time). Edible fats other than lard, butter, and margarine (such as dripping and cocoa butter) are ration-free to the general public and in residential establishments, but are rationed in bulk to catering establishments and institutions.
The Public Meals Order is, so far as Great Britain is concerned, absorbed in the new Rationing Order, subject to certain important changes, one of which provides for a considerable modification in the scales of consumption in catering establishments, especially for fats.
