It is improper to eat acid substances with milk, as these would tend to prevent the due digestion of it. Cream Is very nourishing, but on account of its fatness is difficult to be digested in weak stomachs. Some writers inveigh against the use of butter as universally pernicious, but they might with equal reason condemn all vegetable oils, which form considerable part of diet in southern climates, and seem to have been beneficially intended by nature for that purpose. It is, however, improper in bilious constitutions. Cheese Is likewise reprobated by many as extremely un wholesome.
Toasted cheese is agreeable to most palates, but it is rendered more indigestible by that process.
The flesh of birds differs in quality according to the food on which they live. Such as feed upon grain and berries afford, in general, good nourishment, geese and ducks are hard of digestion, especially the former. A young hen or chicken is tender and delicate food, and extremely well adapted to those in whom the digestive powers are weak. But of all tame fowls, the capon is the most nutritious. Turkeys, as well as Guinea or India fowls, afford a substantial nutriment but are not quite so easy of digestion as the common domestic fowls.