The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-01-14
THE HOUSEHOLD.
The Effect Of Cookery ON the Health
MisceiIaneOu Hats and Notss-A Batch
of lteceipts.

the subjects which We should have been
glad TO zee more said about at the re-
cent health congress in Philadelphia, 10
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 il by no means unimport
ant on that account, .
We may remark, for the benefit OF
young Indies in whose vista OF the in-
ture the possibility Of matrimopy some
times lends q color to the scene, that IN
the great majority of cases, If a lady
would have her cooking well done, she
must be capable Of infinitely attending
to it herself. Cooks who can, without
instruction or supervision, get up o
plain family breakfast or dinner as 1t
ought to be done, ore very difficult to
obtain, except at prices which only rich
people can pay, and are not always to
be had even then. But it ID not OF per
o n who are able to hire women to do
their cooking that we wish here to
speak, 80 much as Of the families OF
working people. The amount OF bad
cookery, and Of consequent injury to
health, among some portions of this lat
ter class is positively frightful. 1t may
be observed that the i'll health OCca-
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 10 which the hui
man system is subject which is not liza,
BILE TO be aggravated by this cause.
Especially is this true of affections OF
tho lungs. In ordinary cases, one OF
the most efficient %preventives OF con-
sumntion 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 iriur.
ious to such persons than undue expos
ure to the weather. The exercise oh.
tanned by manual labor often, it il true,
counteracts, in a certain degree, among
the poor, the effects of unskillful and
careless preparation Of food ; but it
does so only in n certain degree. 1t
does not, in most cases, fully obyiate
the evil, and in many instances hardly
mitigate it at all.
OFTEN MAY WE EAT.
On this topic the Science Monthly
of Health gives the following advice:
1t has been demonstrated that at Ger.
tain intervals, when food is received
into the stomach, gastric juice Is Sc
GREETED to digest it, and no more gastric
juice is sccreted than is required Tor the
digestion of the proper quantity OF
food.
II O person eat twice or thrice q day
at regular periods, the gastric juice is
secreted by the stomach to digest the
food it 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. Sap.
pose the person, about al hour after
eating this food, takes q 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 ct
the first. Suppose he TOOK food every
hour what would be the consequence ?
The stomach would become prematurely
worn out and could do nothing per.
fectly-working all the time without
lest. But if the person possessed a
good constitution and n large amount
of vital power, he would not feel at first
this drain upon the system, but sooner
later he would have to pay the pen.
atty OF outraged nature. For instance,
u persCn may have n large capital in
bank; he can live upon the interest
very we'll, but he draws upon his cap.
ital. He does not feel this drain ut
first, because he has 80 large 4 bank &c.
connt but If he keeps on he will be-
come, ooner or later, q bankrupt.
Some persons have m enormous amount
of vitality-good constitutions. II is
said Of these persons that nothing hurts
them they can eat and drink anything
with impunity. This is a fatal mistake;
see how many years OF life they are cut.
ing off by such fooiishness. II such
persons live to the age of seventy or
eighty shcy might have reached the ago
Of 100 or more years by better dietetio
habits.
A PLENTY OF APPLES.
The frequent use Of apples, either
before or after meals, has Il 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 atfec-
tions in Paris il owing to The increased
consumption OF apples which fruit he
maintains, III an Observation-Disclosures
and tonic, as well rs a very nonrishing
and eusiiy digested article.
EGd PLANT.
This is q most delicious vegetable,
which would be- more generally grown
and used If its good qualities were bet.
ter known. 1t may be kept Till mid
winter by storing away in IL cellar that
does not freeze, and will furnish n rich
daily treat that cannot be surpassed by
any Of it's garden competitors.
Some cooks cut it i'll 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, lopgitudinally, 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 lire. This ID a dish for m epicure,
equal to scdlloped crabs.
%PLUCKINa FOWLS o MARKET.
There are some who obj ct to scalding
fowls preparatory 10 removing the
feathers, Prof. Blot among the number,
on the ground that it Injuries the quail.
ity OF tine flesh. With all respect for