The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-21

The author speaks as follows OF the daily
amount of food necessary for man:
Animals have been fed on pure starch, or sugar
or fat alone, and they gradually pinned away and
died; and the nitrates in all the fine flour bread
which the animal can eat, will not sustain life
beyond fifty days but others fed on unbolted
flour bread would continue to thrive for an indea
mite period 1t is lmmaterial whether the general
quantity of food be reduced too low, or whether
either Of the muscle making or heatprodncing
principles be withdrawn while the other Is fully
supplied. In either case the elect VIII be the
same. The animal will become weak, dwindle
away and die sooner or later, according to the
deficiency and if food is eaten which is deficient
in either principle, the appetite will demand it IN
quantity till the deficient element is supplied.
An the food, beyond the amount necessary to
supply the principle that is not deficient, is not
only wasted, but burdens the system with efforts
to dispose of 1t. Food therefore, containing the
right proportion of heaters and muscle makers is
not only best, but most economical.
In Boston, and probably in all American cities,
q large part of the expenses of the table are for
butter superfne -four and sugar. neither Of which
contains enough of the muscle or brain feeding
element to sustain life for fifty days. as has been
proved with -four, while butter and sugar would
not sustain life single month without other food.
As far as we have articles of food deficient in
carbonates we can use, without loss, butter or
sugar to supply the deficiency; but most of our
national food, both animal and vegetable, con-
tains due proportion, and If with them we use
the system, and are therefore lost. All meats,
fat and lean together, all grain and milk, contain
all the csrbOnates that are needed. or can be used
to furnish heat in moderate weather. All the
butter or sugar therefore, that Is added to either
articles of food they used, in making cakes,
custards pies, ETC.. are not lost, but by adding too
much fuel increase the tendency to inhsmmations,
embarrass the stomach and induce dyspepsia,
congestions, distinctions, etc.
With beefsteak, or any other lean meats or fish,
ohl riad
beans, or peas, some oily substance seems to be
needed as all these articles are deficient in car
| bon, and in common use we have the choice be-
| tween lard, sweet oil, or butter, or perhaps fat
pork, all of which are precisely alike in chemical
| construction, and that one is most wholesome
| which is best relished.
Sugar is needed with the acid fruits and berries
| and especially with apples, which in New Eng
| land are the most valuable of all fruits, either
| with or without cooking, and which, with sugar,
furnish excellent food, especially in winter and
| spring. when other fruit cannot be had.
But TO find good use for superdne flour, out OF
| which has been taken nine tenths of its food for
muscle or brains, is exceedingly difficult, indeed
| impossible in health; and it can only be useful in
| disease when the irritabiity of the stomach oil
! bowels forbids the use of their natural stimuant
Just as Inflammation of the eye makes it necessary
| 10 exclude the light.
The Doctors recipe for making natural bread il
| as follows: Bread, light, sweet, delicious, and
| eminently wholesome, may be made by mixing
| good unbolted wheat meal with cold water, o.
milk if preferred, making paste of proper con
sis,ence, which can only be determined by ex
| perimen., pouring or dropping it quickly into
| heated pan, and placing it quickly in hot oven
and baking it as soon as possible without burning
| The heat of the oven and pan suddenly coagu
lates the gluten of the outside, which retains thu
steam formed within, and each particle OF waite
being interpreted with particle Of -four, snC
| expanded into steam, separates the particles int
cells, and being retained by the gluten, which
abundant in this natural four till it is cooked, tn
mass remains porous and dgestible. and contain
ing no carbonic acid gas is wholesome whe
eaten Immediately, and. of course, equallyso OF
| becoming cold"