Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1855-08-11
WHAT SHALL WE EAT.

1t is difficult, during the sultry heats of
summer. TO ascertain the best kinds of food
the best, as well as matter Of taste, as in
point Of economy and nourishment Beef eat
ing is out of the question with the multitude,
os the price is still so enormous, and although
flour has declined considerably it is sufficient
ly high. A writer in "I,ife Illustrated" ven
lures to recommend several substitutes and
to give some seasonable hints as follows =
Homony should have high place on our
list of edibes. 1t is one of the indispensibles
on every Southern table. 1t comes upon the
board as unfailingly at every meal as docs
bread. When properly made and well cook
ed lit should be soaked before cooking, and
then boiled from half an hour to an hour, ac-
cording to its coarseness) it is one of the best,
most nutritious and cheapest articles of hu-
| man food. Cracked wheat, oatmeal mush,
boiled rice, &c, should not be forgotten in
this connection.
Beans and peas should be more generally
eaten than they are. They are exceedingly
nutritious, very palatable, and comparatively
cheap. AT present prices, doliar's worth
OF beans or peas will yield of substantial nu-
trlment-of the muscle forming elements-at
least Blk times as much a dollars worth Of
potatoes. They may be either baked or stew
cd. In New England "pork and beans" hold
place OF honor, but elsewhere in this coun-
Try they are almost unknown. Leaving out
the pork, nothing can be better. A little 20
SAT-, with the addition of sweet milk, cream,
or butter, while baking, leaves nothing TO be
desired.
Good, ripe, mealy Irish potatoes are excel
lent, as also are sweet potatoes, and we would
by no means exclude beets, carrots, parsnips,
turnips, etc, from our tables but at present
prices economy does not warrent their free
consumption by persons Of moderate means.
Let US hope that the crops of the present
season will bring them again within our
reach.
We do not like the Germans sauer krou
nor do we approve of vinegar and pepper as
condiments, but we DO like cabbage boiled by
nsell in pure water till it is cooked perfectly
soft, and served up, adding q little salt and
perhaps little butter In this form it is
wholesome and nutritive
But nature indicates very plainly that Der.
res and fruits should have prominent place
IN our summer dietary. They are not only
produced in abundance at this season, but
every healthy stomach is instinctively attrac-
ted TO them. Strawberries. blackberries,
raspbcrrles, whortleberries, cherries, plums.
grapes, fgs, (sorry we cannot raise the last
named in New York and New Jersey apples,
pears, peaches, melons, are food fit for gods
We pity him whose prevented taste or diges-
AFRAID to eat fruits and berries especially in
mid-summer-;just the time when nature and
common sense say they should be eaten most
freely. They have the fear of cholera, dysen-
terry, etc, constantly before their eyes, and
have ad opted the absurd idea that fruit-eat-
ing predisposes to those complaints. Exact
ly the reverse is the fact
There are no better preventatives of these
diseases than ripe berries and fruits, eat in
proper quantities and at proper times. Un-
ripe fruit should be scrupulously avoided
That which is in any measure decayed is
scarcely less Objectionable. Fruit and ber-
rles should not be considered as mere occa-
sional luXuries. They should be eaten every
day during the summer, and make part of al
most every meal In the city most kinds are
ezpenSire articles of diet, we admit. We are
sorry they are so. STILL We can better afford
to eat them than meat, potatoes, turnips,
green, etc. In the country, where they
abound, there is no excuse for negecting
them. Depend upon it, berries and fruits
should enter largely into our summer diet
Let them be ripe and fresh, and eaten like
everything else, with moderation, and you
need not fear the results
To these hastily penned, but not unconsid-
ed hints toward an answer to the question
with which we commenced our article, we will
add only single remark, but very impor-
tant one. The waste of material in our sys-
tens being much less in summer than in win
ter, we require proportionully less food to
supply the loss so whatever you cat, 90 not
eat too much