The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1876-03-25
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sUKnER BOARD IN THE COUNTRY

sUhHER BOARD IN THE COUNTRY.
HAdvice gratis" is never taken to be
worth anything. As the fruit of long
txlerienee may be Of some practical use
% : numerous class of people, viz: board
or< and those who take boardes in the
country, ] offer this letter under the trees
NJ ny fellow-sufferers and friends.
ApyicE TO THOSE WHO TAKE BOARD
<ss First get gridiron. This is kitch-
% ntensi made Of iron, as the name
|aale1les. If differs from griddIe in
<tfy important respect the griddle is a
|o|'t dat surface on which meat or any
<os11e<s may be fried in fat. Every body
|n Ne country knows a griddle. 1t has
11ea % use from time immemorial, and
ths'eQh memories Of griddle-cakes linger
N Wa mind Of every one who was raised
81 >Ais Or any other land of cakes. A
I'7|ns-pan is used for the same purposes
n 3 riddle, and for other purposes, the
eAItf of them indicated by the name. It
y AZ frying.
But gridiron is another aud totally
ildcrent article. Its nature, design and
duty afc in a line Of service distinct and
dlissence in all that concerns the comfort,
health aud life Of the boarder who, for the
l'p'e being, is your guest, and looks to
yoa % be his minister in things pertaining
. pie daily food. Gradually approaching
ny snbject, again ask, have you grid.
ifouf Or, not having one, do you know
what Il is2 It consists of several narrow
separated iron bars usually lying parallel,
secnred at the ends, so that they will sup
porl slice Of meat, or a cleft chicken,
over bed Of glowing Goals. The process
81 cooking meat on gridiron is broiling,
- contradistinction from frying, which is
doie in griddle or pan. In the latter
Ease, the flesh is cooked in its own fat
4hich becomes set or fixed in the meat,
baked, jellied, and the food is tough, hard
and indigestible. In the broiling process
the outside is quickly charred, the juices
arc rctained, and the meat is more tender,
telter favored and far more digesti BILE.
The same difference exists between bak-
|ne and roasting. Put piece of beef or
safkey into pan and shut it up in hot
oycn till it is done, aud you call it roasted,
bnt u is not it is baked. Put it ON a
1p|l 10 Dutch oven standing before the
6fc, or hang it over the Goals aud let it
cook and drip, bastiug it meanwhile with
things appropriate, and the meat will be
ro0sfed, The difference between baked
md roasted meats is similar to the differ
1ace between fried and broiled. And the
1l8erence in the taste, though great, is
~ . great as the difference in the diges-
a6I||ty of the two. The frying-p pan is the
gpufse Of large part Of the dyspepsia
id>t abounds in the country. And so
einfplly sensible are many people on this
1ptjeet, they will not eat that which is
|Iied, preferring to fast rather than become
|h> yictims of tit of indigestion which
3|th them Is sure 10 follow the eating of
nes's that are thus cooked.
herefore, say unto you, whosoeyer
p1rpose first to take summer boarders
ifou the city, get unto yourselves q grid
|roo | do not deny that the frying-pan
has rs uses. Aud the saying "out of the
{fying-pan into the FIRE" 10 so ancient,
that Il is certain the utensil is Of no mod
prn date. But many evils in this world
moi long standing, and antiquity is no
p91|iation Of their ill-deserts. 1t does in
decd render them more respectable, and
|nuoh harder Of extirpation, but they do
M grow better with age; and their res
stability does not forbid their criticism.
There is moral aspect also in which
Ib|a gridiron persus frying-pan question is
q Be viewed. Good digestion is in order
" be normal exercise of the moral facul-
tlqs Much of that depression Of spirit
xhieh gets the name Of religious melan
c1oly, gloom, loss Of hope, actual despair,
cones of dyspepsia. A writer on physiol-
o1y says:
Many persons do not exactly know
xhere their stomach is, and still larger
eQmber are apt to forget that It lies very
e|ose underneath the heart"
Just so nearly related in morals, as in
physics, are the stomach and the heart.
lhls is another and constraining consid-
eE1sion in favor Of roasting and broiling,
>ad against baking and frying our meat.
Passing from this, but without leaving
Ne table, let me intimate in the gentlest
1tms that are adequate to the emergency,
Iaat city boarders in the country desire
adamdance Of those things which are sup
bed to be abundant 10 the rural districts.
~ to my certain knowledge farmers and
ofhers WIN, have attrncted summer board