Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1867-06-28
DIED OF BAD COOKING.

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pause, he remarked quite seriously'
"He died of bad cooking" I do
hot know that ever saw such state
ment in an obituary notice, but it
might with truthfulness be put into a
great many. The only wonder is that
o great many moro do not die of
It, Probably an active outdoor life
helps to keep off the fatal result,
though the same cannot fail to steadily
undermine the stoutest constitution.
Meats sodden in fat, ard bread nino-
ten:hs Of the time sour or heavy, are
tho order in many households. A lad
whom circumstances compelled to
board for seversl months in such
place, said: M should ha7o supposed
they would miss it some times and
have good bread, but they never o'o.
If some house. keepers had served mn
apprenticeship, to learn the art OF
making poor bread, they could not
have succeeded better. Sour bread
and dyspepsia are twin brothers, or
rather mother and child.
Careless, hard working mothers,
who will not take little pain to cook
q tow PLAIN things we'll, are usually
the least sufferers by tho poor man
sgement. They and their families
have usually such an amount of out
door exercise that they can barely
live through it, without breaking
down. Still q great deal of the cross
ness and misery which haunts such
homes like a shadow, arises from the
indigestion which follows loading up
the stomach with stones and leather
in place of wholesome food.
The evil il greatly aggravated when
we come to the more comfortable
middle class, where too often tho
whole management of meals beyond
u few bad directions, ID left to an ig-
norant and careless domestic. Good
moaly potatoes are turned into water
washed Jumps :; meat is put into cold
water at first and afterwards boiled
at a furious rate until oil the juices are
soaked away, and the mass that re-
mains is about as dry, and unnour-
ishing as a block of fibrous wood
Then the liquid meat which is left in
the kettle is turned out into the drain
So on to the end of the chapter
The sour bread difficulty is quite AT
great here, and if an attempt is made
to correct it, enough soda is usually
employed to make fine dish of soar
in the stomach, when combined will
the grease usually accompanying
such cooking in one article or anoth
er. If our ladies only would attent
to the business tb EN- solves, and frs
learn and then carefully direct thei
domestics in the business, standing b.
to see that it is done right, until th
habit is formed, it would do more t
make their families healthy and hap
py, than all the tucked skirts or en-
broidered dresses they could make j
a life time. It is worth making iii
effort for. It will pay you the lal
geet interest IN the matter of mer
personal happiness, to see each met
como to the table thoroughly We
prepared, and to know that husban
and children can partake Of it with
out danger of that foe to all happ
ness, indigestion. The advanta &c
small incomes of such wise superv
sor as the mistress of the house, ca
not be over estimated. "The eyes I
the mistress will do more work tia
both hen hands"
There is another class, too VIII
though often not the richest, prid
themselves on the little they have a
qnired among plain neighbors of "goe
livers" which usually means, they 8
a table on which every luxury of Il
season abounds, prepared with oil Il
expensive ingredients that can Col
venisntfy be added thereto. 1t W
. curiosity to hear Mrs l.. desert
The ingredients sho mixed into b
mammoth jar Of naince-pie mel
All the spices that ever came toy
were added with wine, brandy, cid
tea.berries, little pieces Of suet, era
berries, raisins, currants, and varic