The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1878-07-17
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY IL.
Hot Weather Eating,

HOLSTERS and soft-shell crabs may be eaten
with IMMUNITY when the thermometer marks
10 degrees, but let the mercury shoulder So
degrees and shell fishes generally act like
poison Ga the gastric juices. The same thing
is true, more or less, about broiled ham or
bacon, hot corned beef, q innel cakes,rye bread
meat pies, clam fritters and dozen other
things which may lie upon the gastrics during
heated term as heavily as Richards murdered
cousin safe upon his conscience in the tent
scene. During such days as we have known
tince Sunday last he best ate who ate least and
oftenest. Nature, which is mans best doctor,
and prefers an ounce of prevention to a pound
OF cure, fills eur rivers and bays in July and
August with fish, which, whether cheap or
dear in price, art can deal with in a dozen pal
atable ways. Not the least pleasant of these
In bot weather is TO "souse' the fish or to pick
le it, or to dress it when cod with salad Dress
ings and then to wed it to beets or tomatoes or
10 serve in fisbballs giving bread ad libituna)
for breakfast. Felipe in July, or the clam
chowder of the old Arcadians, or cold string
beans in the form of salad, or a hash of lamb
surmounted by poached eggs-each and all are
dainty summer dishes Let the heavy soups
leaf to the September perspectives. Shall we
however, during these hot days. disdain the
oasQues and purees9 These are high sounding
names, but the best of them with almost any
Kind of meat broth for q basis is cheap and
they may be thickened by means of rice -four
or oil the finest farina or of fresh tomato sauce.
Not the worst of all pureeS is to be made by
poliing lobster claws and thickening the liquid
with tomato and bruised biscuit But the pru-
dent gastronome, during the heat will postpone
tquashes and cucumbers (though he may remain
teaofast to the tender auti-scorbutic onion as
well as The early musketball of white wax
which your green grocer calls a 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
Drains OF the eater, but to the process by
which the berries are prepared. In the
the hot weather the delicate fruit of ripe cur
rants is both savory and wholesome at break
fast, when too, should be eaten the cherry,
'delighting the sense of every mar as the
Karan hath it, and the gooseberry. and that
really new American fruit, the cultivated
blackberry. Every physician knows how a
really ripe peach will tit and "tone up" the
disordered digestion even of child. Last Of
all comes vexatous question when the ther-
nometer tops so degrees-wbat to do with the
water melon. The watermelon is beast
maligped at street corners under boiling sun
by the Board of Health, but when his seeds
are black and bis heart is red and his cutcle
bath grown cold in cellar corner or under a
Croton tap, where refrigerators are wanting,
ne is neither an unpleasant nor mischlevous
assuager OF thirst, provided only those who
deal with him look well upon the rind where it
grows green ard cry "Hold, enough!"-Nea0
York World.