Excerpt from Procedures for Calculating Nutritive Values of Home-Prepared Foods: As Used in Agriculture Handbook No. 8, "Composition of Foods Raw, Processed, Prepared," Revised 1963 The formulas used in deriving the nutritive values of home-prepared foods for Handbook 8 were chosen as reasonable, or standard, combina tions of ingredients for these products. They were based on recipes from many sources and are shown here in tables 3 to 26 (pp. 9 to The weights assigned to volume measures in the formulas were adapted from the Handbook of Food Prepara tion published by the American Home Economics Association from table 3 in the 1950 edition of Handbook 8 and from. Other published and un published sources. Table 1. Sample Calculation of the Composition of a home-prepared Food From Ingredients (sponge Cake) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.