The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-05-13
The Food Question.

In Europe, Wnere II Is OF Vital 1mpOr-
tance to millions of human beings to obtain
the largest possible quantity of wholesome
sustenance for a given sum, the Food
Question has long engaged the earnest at
tention of political economists and scien-
tifc men. Innumerable experiments have
been made, and learned essays written by
the ream, with the view of solving this i'm
portant problem, but the foreign chemists,
philanthropists and statesmen who have
discussed it, do not seem to have arrived at
any common conclusion on the subject,
and the world at large, is not much better
for their disquisitions. In the meantime,
on this side of the Atlantic, the practical
application ofa cheap and plentiful natural
product to nutritiv purposes, is producing
economic results which appear to take the
food question completely out of the pale of
theory, and to show that the nourishing
properties of the most valuable staples OF
life may be enormously increased at NOM
inal cost, and in a way that is gratifying to
the palate, as well as saving to the purse
Most of our readers have probably heard
of the patent article manufactured from
Irish Moss and known as SEA Moss FARRE,
which Mr.. Rand, a distinguished practical
chemist, has recently introduced into the
kitchens of America. Liebig, with all his
recipes for concentrating the life-sustaining
elements of animal food, has never done
society SO great service. He has been
successful in extracting the nutritious ma
terial from meats and condensing it into q
small compass; but he has given. us no ar
ticle, that, like the Sea Moss Farine, will
increase more than one-third the quantity
of wholesome bread obtainable under ordi-
nary circumstances from given quantity
of -four. We are not prone to place much
confidence in new discoveries, even when
announced under the sanction of patent,
but the testimony In favor of this cheap
and simple preparation is SO overwhelming,
and has been so entirely cOrrobOrated by
our own experience, that we cannot and do
not hesitate to recommend it most emphat-
ically to the attention of every household
desirous of combining economy with the
enjoyment of luxurious and delicious ar
ticles of food.
The countless ways in which the Sea
Moss Farine may be utilized in cookery,
the immense number of dishes, some plain
and simple, others of the most delicate and
delicious nature, to which it not only inn
parts all that is desirable in quality, but
wonderful increase of quantity are among
its strongest recommendations. There is
no kind of farinaceous preparations, no
kind of soup or gravy in which it may not
be used to advantage, and the blanc mango,
puddings, custards, creams jellies, gruels,
&c, made from it are not only unsurpassed
but in our opinion, unequalled. Inyalids,
whose stomachs are so sensitive as to reject
all ordinary preparations for the sick room
find no difficulty in retaining and digesting
the light and nourishing food of which
this article forms the basis.
On the score of economy, the Sea Moss
Farine is certainly infinitely preferable to
any Of the starches, farinas, gelatines, &C.,
made from the cereals or from maize. We
are assured that package of it, costing
only twenty-five cents, will produce no less
than sixteen quarts of blanc mango, jelly,
custard, or Moss Farine cream. The guam
tity seems almost incredible, but the state
ment is made on good culinary authority,
and our readers can easily test its accuracy
for themselves.
The new article seems to have been sub
mitted to the most rigid and impartial
scrutiny. A commission appointed by the
American Institute have paid such an Off
cial compliment to its merits as is
rarely vouehsafed by cautious science
to any 'new thing under the SUM-" A
large proportion of the leading hotel and
IthlduIdub JAOH1lClOIb IA 1NCH LOAh uoC II
and urge its use by others, over their own
signatures; and men eminent in science,
have voluntarily came forward and endorsed
1t as an economical culinary staple, and as
an unexceptionable article of nourishment
for the sick. The material from which it
is manufactured Carrageen, or Irish Moss
is lichen found in unexhaustible guam
titles on the coast of Ireland, and may be
had for the gathering, without money and
without price. Hence, it will be cheap, as
long as the sea and the rocks last which
will be long: enough for all practical pur-
poses. Our main object in this article has
been toplaes what we believe to be sub
ject of great importance in its true light
nothing more, nothing less. The Sea Moss
Farine is manufactured by a company,
whose central depot rs at SO Park Place,
New York. ..-