Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-04-16


scientific men. Innumerable experiments
have been made, and learned essays writ
ten by the ream, with the view of solving
this important 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
the better for their dispositions. In the
meantime, on this side of the Atlantic, the
practical application Of cheap and plenti-
full natural product to nutritive purpose,
is producing economic results which APP
pear 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 nominal 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 FARNE,
which Mr.. Rand, distinguished practical
chemist, has recently introduced into the
kitchens of America Liebig, with all his
recipes for concentrating the DEMONSTRATING
elements of animal food, has never done
society so great a service. He has been
successful in extracting the nutritious ma
terial from meats and condensing it into a
small compass but he has given us no ar
ticle, that, like the Sea Moss Farine, will
increase more than one-third of the quanti-
ty of wholesome bread obtainable under or
binary 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
DESTROYS of combining economy with the
enjoyment Of luxurious and delicious arti-
cles 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 I'M
parts all that is desirable in quality, but q
wonderful increase of quantity are among
| its strongest recommendations. There is
| no kind of farinaceous preparations, nc
kind of soup or gravy in which it may not
be used to advantage, and the blanc mango,
buildings, custards, creams, jellies, gruels,
etc., made from it are not only unsurpassed,
but in our opinion, unequalled. Invalids,
| whose stomachs are so sensitive as to reject
all ordinary preparations for the sick room,
| find no difficulty in retaining and digestine
the light and nomishing food of which this
article forms the basis.
On the score of economy, the Sea Moss
Farine is certainly infinitely pre-
ferable to any of the 'starches, farinas, gela-
| tines, etc, made from the cereals or from
maize. We are assured that package OF
| it. costing only twenty-five cents, will pro-
duce no less than sixteen quarts of blanc
mango, jelly, custard, or Moss Farine
cream. The quantity seems almost in
credible, but the statement 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 offie-
| ial compliment to its merits as is rarely
| vouchsafed by cautious science to any
| ''new thing under the sun" A large pro
portion of the leading hotel and restaurant
| proprietors in New York use it and urge Its
use by others, over their own signatures;
and men eminent in science, have volun.
tarily came forward and endorsed it as an
economical culinary staple, and as an un.
| exptionable article of nourishment for the
sick. The material from which it is manu-,
Acknowledgment or Irish Moss-is g
lichen found in inexhaustible quantities on
the coast of Ireland, and may be had fol
| the gathering, without money and without
price. Hence, it will be cheap, as long as
| the sea and the recks last, which will be
long enough for all practical purposes. Oul
main object in this article has been to place
what we believe to be a subject Of great
importance in its true light-nothing more
nothing less. The Sea Moss Farine i.
manufactured by a company, whose centra
depot is at SO Park Place, New York. L