Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1867-03-01
Good Breakfasts.

/ Good Breakfasts.
Jennie June in her new cook book, gives
a chapter on breakfasts. She says: ai
j A great variety of dishes are unneces-
sary for breakfast, but see what you do
have is nicely cooked and properly served
Unless sickness or some other cireumstan-
ces prevents, the mistress Of the house
should always add the finishing touches TO
I the breakfast room and the break fast table.
i That the dishes may be well cooked
and well served, they must be adapted to
the other services required on that day.
On washing and ironing days, for instance,
as little time andas little of the fire should
be used as possible, and care should be
taken to save interruption to the important
principal business Of the day.
Broiled chicken and warmed over chick
en- and omelettes, are always nice break
fast dishes, but in cities the prices put
them out of the reach of ordinary people,
except on extraordinary occasions. The
regular dishes, such as beef-steak. mutton
chops, fish, eggs, broiIed ham, and warmed
over potatoes, are all understood, and, in
different kinds and degrees, constitute the
daily breakfast probably of half the world.
There is a very important point, how
ever, to which lite attention is paid, and
that is fruit.
Fruit" saith the old proverb, is /" golden
in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at
/ night" yet it is only at night that in this
/ country we eat ii all as part of meal
This is wrong Fruit il a most valuable
t part of food it cannot Ire too highly esti-
e mated. More fruit, with les saleratus and
4 rich, greasy compounds, such as butter
n with meats, gravies and the like, would
y take away the occupation of half the
: doctors, and reduce wonderfully the sum
n total of dyspepsia and liver complaints.
e A distinguished physician has said that
/ one or two tart Messina oranges eaten be-
fore breakfast during the three spring
o months would cure the most obstinate bill
ons disorders but the case would undoubt-
!. edly be as effectnal If they were eaten At
h and melted butter on hot cakes reduced
t during that time. The rule should be to
e have fresh fruit on the table every morn
= ing as long as it lasts, and then prepara-
/
tion of dried, canned or preserved fruits a
E small investment of Guava Jelly ; and that
i India fruit for breakfast will not be thrown
r away after your own stock is exhausted,
and you begin to tire of apples and the
: common dried varieties. ss
Y A very valuable adjunct to the break
h fast table is the tomato. Highly priced as
5 it is, its Admirable medical qualities are
a only just beginning to be discovered
Providentially it is so cheap and grows so
readily and profusely that the poorest per-
soa can luxuriate in its excellence as well
as the richest, and derive all the more
. benefit from not being able TO destroy its
virtue with butter and an excess of condi-
ments @
Tomatoes are an almost sovereign cure
for dyspepsia, and should be on the table,
raw or cooked, the year round. Persons
habtuated to then. DON learn to love them
in any form-slced with little pepper,
salt and vinegar, stewed, baked, or even
: fresh from the vines. The least healthful
and generally the least palatable mode Of
serving them is sweetened or with sugar.
Mush, hominy, wheaton grits, or some
! dish of that sort should be frequently seen
upon the table. Such food is excellent
for children, and soon becomes very pala-
table and highly esteemed by grown per-
sons. Moreover, if it is not eaten when
first boiled, it is not wasted; it is just as
good fried, or used as basis for griddle
cakes.
In some families warm soda buscuit for
breakfast is the regular thing this is very
hurtful. Good homemade bread, not
quite fresh, is best. French bread. baked
the day before, next best; good bakers
twist, third best. For change, warm
corn bread or johnny may be made
for breakfast, rice cakes or waffies, and, if
buseuits, make them of the light dough
mixed over night, shortened with little
butter.
When the spring water-cresses come in
there should be thankfulness. Pile them
up fresh, green and crisp, upon dish in
the center of the table, and eat them with
new laid eggs boiled soft, salt, nice Graham
bread and sweet butter. This is break
fast suited to Lent, aud fit for republican
queen.
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