The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1875-01-15
THE HOUSEHOLD.
The Effect OF Cookery on the Health
miscellaneous Hints and Not ss-A Batch
of ReceSufE.
HEALTH AND COOKERY.

cent health congress in Philadelphia, IS
the relation of good cookery to health.
We have no means of knowing how
many deaths there are from unwhOle-
some cookery among the poor people
and some that are not poor but there
can be no reasonable doubt that the
number is very great. The operation
of this cause In increasing the bills OF
mortality is often, indeed, indirect and
remote, but it is by no means unimport
ant on that account.
We may remark, for the benefit of
young ladit In whose vista of the fu-
ture the possibility of matrimony some
times lends a color to the scene, that in
the great majority of cases, If a lady
would have her cooking we'll done, she
must be capable of infinitely attending
to 1t herself. Cooks who can, without
instruction or supervision, get up a
plain family breakfast or dinner as it
ought to be done, are very difficult to
obtain, except at prices which only rich
people can pay, and are not always to
be had even then. But it Is not of per-
SONS who are able to hire women to do
their cooking that we wish here to
speak, SO much as of the families OF
working people. The amount of bad
COOhOAJs dL0 III consequent Injury "
health, among some portions of this lat
ter class is positively frightful. It may
be observed that the i'll health coca
stoned by bad cooking or improper food
of any kind, is far from being confined
to disorders of the stomach. There Is
no classes Of diseases to which the hu-
man system is subject which is not liza
bic to be aggravated by this cause.
Especially is this true of affections of
the lungs. In ordinary cases, one of
the most efficient preventives OF con-
sum otiOn in individuals who have a
tendency to that disease is wholesome
and nutritious diet. Greasily cooked
meat, heavy bread or biscuits, and badly
boiled potatoes, are scarcely less iur-
ious to such persons than undue expos
ure to the weather. The exercise OBJ
tanned by manual labor often, it is true,
cOunteracts, in certain degree, among
the poor, the effects of unskillful and
careless preparation of food but it
does so only in a certain degree. It
does not, in most cases, fully obviate
the evil, and in many instances hardly
mitigate it at all.
HOW OFTEN MAY WE EAT.
On this topic the Science Monthly
of Health gives the following advice
It has been demonstrated that at GER
tain intervals, when food is received
into the stomach, gastric juice IS Sc
creted to digest it, and no more gastric
juice is secreted than is required for the
digestion of the proper quantity of
food.
It q person eat twice or thrice a day
at regular periods, the gastric Juice is
secreted by the stomach to digest the
food IL has received. If, while the
food is being digested, more food is in
troduced into the stomach, digestion, in
relation to the food already in the
stomach, is arrested. For instance
A person takes, in the morning, a piece
of bread and several potatoes now, it
will take about three hours for the
stomach to dispose of that food. Sup
pose the person, about an hour after
eating this food, takes piece of bread
or an apple or two what would hap
pen? The digestion that was going on
In the stomach would Immediately stop,
and not be resumed until the food that
was last brought into The condition of
the first. Suppose he took food every
hour what would be the consequence ?
The stomach would become prematuTely
worn out and could do nothing per-
fectly-working all the time without
lest. But if the person possessed a
good constitution and a large amount
of vital power, he would not feel at first
this drain upon the system, but sooner
or later he would have to pay the pen
atty OF outraged nature. For instance,
a person may have a large capital In
bank; he can live upon the interest
very well, but he draws upon his cap
ital. He does not feel this drain at
Io0o17ea he hoe
count but if he keeps on he will be-
Some persons have an enormous amount
of vitality-good constitutions. It is
said of these persons that nothing hurts
them they can eat and drink anything
with IMMUNITY. This is fatal mistake:
see how many years of life they are cut
ing off by such foolishness. IF such
persons live TO the age of seventy or
eighty shey might have reached the age
of 100 or more years by better dietetic
habits.
EAT PLENTY OF APPLES.
The frequent use of apples, either
before or alter meals, has a most health
full effect upon digestion. Better eat
less meat and more fruit. An eminent
French physician thinks that the de-
crease OF dyspepsia and bilious affec-
tions In Paris is owing to the increased
consumption of apples which fruit he
maintains, isl an admirableIprOphlyaetic
and tonic, as well as a very nourishing
and easily digested article.
EGG PLANT.
This Is a most delicious vegetable.
which would be more generally grown
and used if its good qualities were bet
ter known. I5 may be kept till mid
winter by storing away IN a cellar that
does not freeze, and will furnish q rich
daily treat that cannot be surpassed by
any of its garden competitors.
some cooks cut it in slices, sprinkle
salt on them, pile them and drain for
an hour before cooking, and then fry in
butter. A better way and less trouble,
is to cut In half, longitudinally, like a
melon, scrape out the interior, and mix
with stale bread crumbs, grated and
plenty of salt and pepper. Return the
mixture to the shells, and bake with
a hot fire. This is dish for an epicure,
equal to scalloped crabs.
PLUCKING FOWLS FOR MARKET.
There are some who obj ct to scalding
fowls preparatory to removing the
feathers, Prof. Blot among the number.
on the ground that il Injuries the quail
lty of the flesh. With all respect for
the renowned professor, We do not
believe the difference is worth mindino
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