Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-11

A NEW TRIUMPH OF PRACTICAL SCI
ENcE.-ALIMENT FROM THE ROCKs.-Al
objections TO the universal use of the Ali
mentary Sea Moses as a portion of the
dietary of the civilized world, have, l.
seems, been happily removed by the dis
covery of a new process OF preparing them
for culinary purposes. There never was
a time when the Food Question" was a
more vital question with the masses than
it is now, and we therefore regard this
discovery as particularly Opportune, not
to say PrOYidential.
The Irish Moss or Carrageen, n The
Iceland and Norwegian Moses have long
been known to contain a larger amount
of nutritive gelatine, in proportion TO
their bulk and weight, than any other
vegetable product of the sea or land; but
the seeming i~mpossibility OF entirely pu-
! rifying them from all ~eXtraneous matter
and rendering them agreeable as an ele-
ment of food, has hitherto excluded them
in q great measure from our bill of fare.
This apparent impossibility has been over
come-experimental science OvercOmes
almost every Obsticle, nOw-a-days-and
Irish Moss, purified, concentrated, and
rendered an absolute luxury as SEA Moss
FARINE, will hereafter be quoted as a
TODD staple in the markets of The world.
We do not make this statement unad-
visedly. We have carefully examined
the testimony on the subject laid before
US. and have found it of a character to
warrant the foregoing conclusion. Above
all, we lave had an opportunity of test
ing a number of delicate dishes prepared
with the new article, and are free to say
that they are calculated to tickle the pal
ate of the most fastidiOus epicure.
Regarded from the economic stand
point, Sea Moss Farine appears to over
shadow every other vegetable nutrient.
1t contains, as we are informed, IN good
scientific authority, nearly ninety per
cent. of n~Ourishing, fattening gelatine,
and of all gelatinOus substances ever used
in cooking, it is said 10 be the cheapest by
over fifty per cent, as well as the most
digestible. We give these statements,
which are authenticated by the signatures
OF men of eminent reputation, as vouch
ers for the opinions we have ventured to
express en- the economic Importance of
the new article of diet. AS to its deli
oiousness, "the proof of the pudding is
the eating" and we feel confident that nc
man or woman who has once eaten of a
pudding, or for that matter, of a custard,
a charlotte russo, a dish of blanc mango,
or any other delicacy, prepared with this
marine Godsepd, will deny its claim TO
rank among the table Injuries of the Pc
Rod.
The SEA Moss FARINE COMPANY, So
Park Place, New York, who are manu-
featuring enormous quantities of this
cheap nutrient under a patent obtained
last summer, have wisely introduced it
without any flourish of trumpets, being
assured, we uppose that it ould take its
true place in the dietary without any fac
titious aid. They have, however, set
forth the nature and uses of the article,
in a neat little pamphlet, accompanying
each package, and Which we advise every
body, and especially every wife and
mother as well as every young lady who
has, or expects to have the charge of a
household, to read, mark, learn and in
wardly digest.
The wealthy and prosperous proprie-
tors of the patent have little to say.
They simply invite attention to their
"Hew Article of Food" and then pre-
sent the scientific and other creden-
tials upon which its claims to the
acceptance of the public was originally
founded. Its reputation already, how
ever, rests upon a broader basis, viz:
the approval of the community to whom
it was first offered not more han twelve
months ago.
To the voyager and the traveller, as well
as TO all who occupy fixed sbodes, the
Sea Moss Farine commends itself on &C.
count ofthe facility with which is is pre-
pared, and the large quantity of light, DE-
g~estible and invigorating nourishment
which it produces. To all with whom
economy in housekeeping is an important
| OBJECT, il would seem TO be an article Of
prime necessity. If it be praiseworthy to
make two blades of grass grow where
only one grew before, it must be equally
meritorious to double the nutritive pow
or of some of the chief staples Of life, at
a nominal cost to the consumer, and this
appears to have been accomplished by
the introduction of this delicious inyig-
GRANT into the kitchens of America.