The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-07-17
Too Hot TO Eat.
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The general chorus of citizens yesterday
sang and may sing again tomorrow,
''Oh, it is too hot to eatr' but hot or cold,
the people who neglect the human stomach
for their own convenience will hear from it.
1t must be always cared for, but people
must be careful TO gauge its capabilities for
digestion by the thermometer. For in
stance, Holsters and soft smell crabs may
be eaten with impunlts when the Their
mometer marks 60, but let the mercury
shoulder SO and shell fish generally act like
a poison on the gastric juices. The same
thing is true, more or less, about boiled ham
or bacon, but corned beef, flannel cakes. rye
bread, meat pies clam fritters. and dozen
other things which may lie upon the
gastrics during a heated term as heav-
lily as Richards murdered cousins
sat upon his conscience in the tent
scene. During such days as We have known
since Sunday last he best ate who ate least
and oftenest. Nature, which is mans best
doctor, and prefers an ounce of prevention
to pound of cure, fills our rivers and bays
in July and August with fish, which, wheth-
er cheap or dear in price. art can deal with
in dozen palatahle ways. Not the least
pleasant of these in hot weather is to
"souse" the fish, or TO pickle it, or to dress it
when cold with salad dressings and
then to wed it to beets or tomatoes
or TO serve 1t in fshballs giving bread ad
libitum) for breakfast. Eel pie in July, or
the clam chowder of the old Acadians. or
cold string beans in the form of a salad, or a
hash of lamb surmounted with poached
eggs-each and all are dainty summer dishes.
Let the heavy soups and roasts be left with
sorrow and the scarlet leaf 20 the September
perspectiveS. Shall we, however, during
these hot days disdain blsques and purees?
These are high sounding names, but
the best OF them, with almost any
kind of meat broth for basis, is cheap, and
they may be thickened by means OF rice
-four, or OF the finest farina, or of fresh
tomato sauce. Not the worst of all purees is
to be made by boiling lobster claws and
thickening the liquid with tomato and
bruised biscuit. But the prudent gastron-
ONE, during the heat will postpone
squashes and cucumbers Though he may re-
main steadfast to the anti-scorbutic onion),
as well as the early musket ball. of
white wax which your green grocer
calls new potato. If the wise pursue the
gooseberry it will be in the shape of what
the jewellers around the Hackensack where
soon the reed and rice birds shall be shot)
call by the good old French name of goose
berry fool, which refers not to the brains of
the eater, but to the process by which the
berries are prepared. In hot weather the
delicate acid of ripe currants Is both sayory
and wholesome at breakfast, when, too,
should be eaten the cherry. ''delightiDg
the sense of every man. the koran
hath it, and the raspberry, and that really
new American fruit, the cultivated black
berry. Every physician knows how really
ripe peach will fit and tone up the disor-
dered indigestion of even a child. Last OF
ali comes vexatious question, when the
thermometer tops 80 degrees-what to
do with the watermelon. The
watermelon is beast malIgned at
street corners under broiling sun by the
board of health, but when his seeds are
black and his heart is red and his cuticle
hath grown cold in the cellar corner or
under a Croton tap (where refrigerators are
wanting) he is neither an unpleasant nor
mischievous assuager of thirst, provided
only those who deal with him look well
upon the rind where it grows green, and cry,
Hold enough"