Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-01-05

tritious Make use Of corn meal oat meal,
Graham -four, hominy, and cracked wheat
for bread, in preference to fine wheat -four,
both for health and economy Here are
the relative retail prices per pound Of these
articles Wheat -four, &C. Graham -four,
&c. cracked wheat, &c. corn meal 25c. !;
hominy, Sc. oat meal, 4tc. The latter is
the most nutritious breadstuf known.
Look at the Scotch with their oat meal
porridge-as robust set of men as ever
lived.
Hominy is an article that no family de-
sirous Of practicing economy, can do with
out. 1t is very cheap, healthy, nutri-
tious food. 1t costs only half the price
per pound of -four, and contains no mois-
ture, while the best of -four holds from
twelve to sixteen pounds of water in bar
rel. Cracked wheat is excellent for seienta-
~ persons That, and Graham -four should
be used in preference, at the same price
per pound, to white -four, because more
healthy and nutritious. One hundred
pounds of Graham -four is worth as much
in family as one hundred and thirty three
pounds of superfne white -four. 1t is
worth twice rs much in winter-not SO
economical in summer, because it takes
SO much fire to cook it. The first great
error in corn meal is in grinding it too
much, and next in not cooking it enough.
Corn meal mush should bsil two hours 1t
is better if boiled four. Buckwheat -four
should never be purchased by a family
who are obliged to economize food, 1t is
dear at any price. l, must be foated in
dear butter to be eaten and then it is not
healthy. Oatmeal is as good in cakes as
buckwheat, and far more nutritious. But
it is most nutritious, and is particularly
healthy for children, in the form Of por-
ridge.
The cheapest of food is white beans.
They are worth from 81 so to 81 bushel,
and retail for eight cents quart. Prof
Licbig has stated that pork and beans form
compound of substances peculiarly adap-
ted to furnish all that is necessary to sup
port life and give bone: muscle and fat, in
proper proportions to man. This food
will enable one to perform more labor, at
less cost, than any other substance. \
quart of beans, s cents, half pound Of
pork, 6 cents, will feed a large family for a
day, with good Strengthening food. And
who that can raise rcminiscene Of good
old times in New England, but will re-
member that glorious old-fashione1 dish
called "bean porridge?" We should call
it bean soup now. Four quarts of beans
and two pounds Of corned beef would give
a good meal to fifty meu-one cent, a
meal.
Potatoes should be utterly abandoned
by the poor this winter. They cannot
afford to eat them. At retail, the poor
pay 81 so bushel, or about five cents 4
pound twice the price of corn meal, five
sixths as much as fine -four, one fifth more
bushel than beans, while one bushel of
the latter are worth for food as much as \
cart load of potatoes. All other vegetables
are still more uneconomical than potatoes.
Carrots are the cheapest Of all roots. But
they are but little used as human food,
though very nutritious. They are partial
ly used in soups. They are good simply
boiled and eaten with little butter or
meat gravy They are sold by the guam
tity at so cents bushel Turnips are
dear at any price. There is more nutri-
ment in quar-, of carrops than in bushel
of turnips They are 81 per cent. water.
Cabbage is nutritious, but very expensive.
Buy very little Of it if your money is short.
Dried sweet corn is an article that all per-
sons are fond of. 1t sells for 81 to 50
bushel, which weighs AZ lbs, and would
retail at about 10 cents pound. We
don't know about the economy of eating it,
as compared with other breads.uifs, but as
with coarse vegetables, 1t Is I'M
mcasurably cheaper. A pound of sweet
corn cooked to be eaten with meat, is worth
more than three pounds of extra meat.
1t is also very excellent and nutritious
mixed in the bean soup. Another
very excellent, nutritious, economical ar
ticle of food is dried peas They are gener-
ally little more costly than beans, but
some think they will 60 further. At any
rate, they are good for changc..-NA
Sun.
uea- BY a table published in the Caiea-
20 Press it appears that there is more grain
in Chicago directly from the
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