Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-01-26

Qualities Of the .aninsol and Veg-
etabls Food commonly used in
Diet.

Diet.
When this is the flesh of a bullock OF
middle age, it affords good and strong
nourishmeat, and is peculiarly well a
dapted to those who labor, or take much
exercise. 1t will often sit easy upon
stomachs that can digest no other kind
of food; and its fat is almost as easily
digested as that Of veal.
VEAL
is proper food for persons recovering
from indisposition, and may be given to
febrile patients in Tery weak state /;
but it affords less nouishment than the
flesh of the same animal in state of
maturity. The fat q it is lighter than
that of any other animal, and shows the
least disposition to Putr escenCy. Veal
is very suitable food in costive habits I;
but of all meat it is the least calculat-
ed for removing addity from the stom-
ach.
MUTTON,
from the age of four to six years, and
fed on dry pasture, is an excellent meat.
1t is of middle kind, between the firm
ness of beef and the tenderness of veal.
The lean part of mutton, however, is
the most nourishing and conducive 10
health the fat being hard of digestion.
The heal of the sheep, especially when
divested of the skin, is very tender;
and the eet, on account of the jelly
they CONAN, are highly nutritive.
is not 50 nourishing as mutton but ii is
light, aid extremely suitable to delicate
stomacIs.
affords rich and substantial nourishment;
and il juices are wholesome when
properly fed, and when the animal en-
Joys pure air and exercise. But the
flesh If hogs reared in towns, is both
hard d digestion and unwholesome.-
Pork is particularly improper for those
who are liable to any fouIness of the
skin.- is almost proyerbial, that a
dram is good for promoting its diges-
ton but this is an erroneous notion !;
for though dram may give moment
airy stimulus 10 the coats Of the stomach,
it tends to harden the flesh, and of
course 10 make it more indigestible.
SMOKED HAMS
are a strong kind Of meat, and rather fiji
for a relish than for diet. 1t is the quail
lty of all sailed meat that the fbres be-
come rigid, and therefore more difficult
of digestion; and when TO this is added
smoking, the heat of the chimney occa-
sions the salt to concentrate, and the fat
between the muscles sometimes to be-
come rancid.
is of very different consistence in differ
ent animals; but that of cows being the
kind used in diet, is at present the OBJ
ject of our attention. Milk, where it a.
grees with the stomach, affords excellent
nourishment for those who are weak,
and cannot digest other ailments. II
does not readily become putrid, but it is
apt to become sour on the stomach, and
thence TO produce fatulence, heart
burn, or gripes, and in some constitutions
looseness. The best milk is from a
COW at three OF four years ofage, about
two months after producing calf. II
is lighter, but more walery, than the
milk of sheep and goats; while, on
the other hand, it is more thick and
heavy than the milk of asses and mares
which are next 10 consistence to human
milk.
On account of the acid which is gene.
rated after digestion, milk coagulates il
all stomachs; but the Gaseous or cheesy
part is again dissolved by the digestive
juices, and rendered fit for the purpose
of nutrition. 1t is improper to eat acif
substances with milk, as these would
tend to prevent the due digestion of it.
CREAM
Is very nourlshlng, but Cd account OF 1t!
fairness, is difficult to be digested il
weak stomachs. Violent exercise afteI
ealing it, will, in little time, CONVEX
II into butter.
BUTTER.
Some writer's inveigh against the use
of butter as universally pernicious; bu
they might with equal reason condemn
all vegetable oils, which form consid
cradle part of diet in the southern eli
mates, and seem TO have been benefi.
cIally intended by nature for that pur.
pose. Butter, like every other oily
substance, has doubtless relaxing quail.
lty, and if long retained in the stomach
is liable TO become rancid but, if eaten
IN moderation, it will not produce those
effects. 1t is, however, improper in