The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1869-07-17
What Shall we Eat?

CHCy SAoOuohy plhCU away cAIO
died; and the nitrates in all the
fine -four bread which the animal
can eat will not sustain life be-
yond fifty days; but others fed on
unbolted flour bread would con-
tinue to thrive for an indefinite
period. 1t is immaterial whether
the general quantity of food be
reduced too low, or whether either
of the matchmaking or heat-pro-
ducing principles be withdrawn
while the other is fully supplied.
In either case the effect will be
come weak, dWindle away and
die sooner or later, according to
the deficiency: and if food is eaten
which is deficient in either princi-
pie, the appetite will demand it
in quantity till the deficient
element is supplied. All 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 it. 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, a large part of
the expenses of the table is for
butter, snperfne -four and sugar,
neither of which contains enough
of the muscle or brain feeding
element to sustain life for fifty
days, as have been proved by ex
periments with -four, while butter
and sugar would not sustain life
a single month without Otherfood.
AS far as the articles of food def
cient in carbonatee, we can use,
without loss, butter or sugar to
supply the deficiency; but most of
our national food, both animal and
vegetable, contains due proper
ton, and if with them we use but
ter and sugar, they cannot be APP
propriated by the system, and are
therefore lost. All meats, fatand
lean together, all grain and milk,
contain all carbonates that are
needed, or can be used, to furnish
heat in moderate weather. All
the butter or sugar, therefore, that
is added to either article of food
as they are used, in making cakes,
custards, pies, &c, are not lost,
but by adding too much fuel to in
crease the tendency to infamma-
lions, embarrass the stomach, and
induce dyspepsia, congestions, OBJ
Structions, &c.
With beefsteak, or any other
lean meats, or fish, or potatoes, or
any green vegetables, or fried
beans or peas, some oily substance
seems to be needed, as all these
articles are deficient in carbon,
and in common use we have the
choice between lard. sweet oil, or
butter, or perhaps fat pork, all of
which are precisely alike in chemi-
cal construction, and that one is
most wholesome which is best rel
ished.
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,
furnishes excellent food, especial
ly in Winter and Spring, when
other food cannot be had. But
to find good use for superfne
flour, out of which has been taken
nine-tenths of it's food for muscle
or brains, is exceedingly difficult,
indeed, impossible, in health; and
it can only be useful in disease,
when the irritation of the stomach
or bowels forbids the use of their
natural stimulant, just as inflam-
nation of the eye makes it neces-
sary to exclude the light. The
doctors recipe for making natural
bread is as follows: "Bread,
light, sweet, delicious, and emf
nently wholesome, may be made
by mixing good unboIted wheat
meal with cold water, or milk if
preferred, making a paste ofprop-
er consistence, which can only
be determined by experiments,
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 coagulates the
gluten of the outside, which re-
tains the steam formed within,
and each particle of water being
interspersed with a particle Of
-four, and expanded into steam,