Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-11-24
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How TO USE TEA AND CoFFEE,7Two
effect, and the best ifethod2 for 'pfOd,3cihgl
that effect; for instance, she should know
The valuable eomponents of tea aud how to
draw out and utilize them. How, many of
our lady friends really Know either of
t1ese? Will they allow me, with all mod
esty, to exDlainthe mystery ? Tea contains
volatile fluid called theme. also consider
able gluten, and traces of several kinds of
salts. The theme probably furnishes the
stimulant, the gluten most of the nouri>h-f
ment. They whOGonly steep theiritea OBJ
tain only the ztheinej those who beil, get
the gluten. For the stepping leaves the
| gluten to be thrown away In the GROUNDS,
| and the boiling fills the air with the fra-f
grant fluid which should remain in the pot.
How, them shall, we do, Both steep. and
boil. Steep the tea in a close vessel for q
while, then pour the decoction off and coV,ir
closely, Chen put I'M more water and boil
as muchiasyou please !; add this liquor to-
the first and serve M, and my word for il,
if your tea came from China, you viii have
the best cup you ever tasted. li 81 u 900
do not at present advise eating the
leavess but truly, the old lady who in sim
plicity served up the tea leaves for greens
was not so tar out of the way, for with the
utmost care, much nutriment remains In
the grounds. A great portion of the food
of travellers in Siberia consists of "brick
tea," This is a coarse quality of tea cement
ed together with bulIocks blood, pressed
| into shape of bricks and thoroughly dried.
1t Is as portable and perhaps rs nourishing
as the rPremmican of the trappers of this
country. AT the camp fire the first thing
done is to hang on the Kettle. put therein
wafer and a portion of the brick, then boil
with vigorous stirring, and hearty meal
! is the result. I...s -.
Coffee contains caffeine a substance sim
| liar to theme, and other elements, and
should be treated exactly as | have pre-
scribed for the preparation of tea, unless
you are ready to adopt the Turkish meth
cd, as follows: Buy coffee beans and roast
for yourselves sufficient for Immediate
using; then pound or grind very fine, put
a suitable quantity of the powder into each
cup with sugar, fill upthe cup with boiling
water and cover closely. Drink grounds
| and all as we do chocolate. In this way
we utilize all the elements. The volatile
| caffeine is liberatedto act upon the brain,
while the other less soluble but equally
| valuable principles are taken in the
| grounds. OF course, this process can be
| followed only when wei have real coffee and
| freshly roasted and ground. In fact, all
| my remarks refer to the proper use of tea
| and coffee, not of substitutes for them. ''
| spoke of theme and caffeine as being.
probably stimulants; they are more prop
| erly termed exhilerants, and unlike most
| cerebral exciteants act beneficially, rather
! than otherwise-preventing waste of the
| whole body and especially of the nervous
| system. .l'''.'HN" O. 'y'." "iis1
| One word concerning substitutes for tea
| nd off 10 fp oil
of them at the present time, but remember
| that you drink decoction of just what you
put into the pot-if peas then extract of
| peas; so if chiccory and everything else.
| None of.these substances possess the quail
! ties of coffee, though by burning, &C.,
| they may resemble it in taste. say, use
| these things as much as you please for
| economy, health, or any other reasOnl only
| do not expect that they contain the ele-
ments of tea and coffee because they taste
like them.-N. E. Farmer.
HORSE STABLEs.-It is q fault with most
stables that they are built for men rather
! than for horses. We wish to pointout two
common errors into which not few build
ers are liable to fall llin,c0nstructing stables,
| especially those upon farms. The first is
in having the doors and upper floor, so low
as they generally are. On account OF these
| them, and they shy, rear or IpranGe when
ever led toward them, They are, also,
| among the most frequent causes. of poll
evil. The horse, when passing through
! them, is either surprised by something it
beholds outside the building, or checked
| by the voice or gesture of the person lead
| ing him, when up goes the head and crash
comes. the poll against the beam of the
| doorway. violent bruise often results
| therefrom, and a deep-seated abscess iol,t
| lows. Low hay floors also produce the
same trouble. The sudden elevation of the
| head is, in the horse, expressive Of very
unexpected emotion. This effect is always
noticed whenever you enter the stable
| rapidly or at an unusual hour. A sudden
noise will also cause the same upward mo-
tion of the head. With low stables an in
jury to the erhorse is almost invariably sure
| to, FOLLOW. .,.',',.. -, ,..,,....,.,.
Again, the easiest position in which the
horse can stand, isrwhen the hind feet are
the highest portion of the body, or when,
the flooring Of, the stall slants in exactly
the opposite direction from what it does In
most Stables. This is the other error in
constructing stables, to which WE allHded.
Horses at liberty ina pasture invariably
stand. when at ease, with their hind feet
elevated somewhat AID it is almost a won
der that builders OF stables have not I'M
proved Rpoh this fact as before, aud adapted
floors to the wants of. the horse, The moist
ure from the borse, If the floor slanted to-,
ward the forward feet, would help to Keep
| the forward feetTnoist, cool and healthy,
whereas they rare now generally hot,
full of fever, and require, washing with
cool soap suds at least once day, in order
to be kept in a. healthy condition, This is,
not all Where the foor.slants back, the
horse moi, t,unfrequently attempts to'ease the.
heavy strain upon the flexor tendons Of the
hind legs by hanging back upon the halter.
The pressure upon the seat of the poll stops,
natural circulation, and in time it deyelopes
itself into,a deep-seated abscess, We would
like to see stable in Which 'the two errors
in building we have pointed out dida not
occur. If-the builder was not satisfied
with it, we are sure the occupant would be,
and would repay him byloug years of good
service with unstrained limbs and q healthy
system.- Fdf0aer .GHoi HHmDn oE"
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