Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-07-25
WHAT TO EAT IN TINE OT HEAT
Take Care OF the Stomach Now and the Sum
Is MGR seissice VIII Not Harm You.

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The human stomach naturally
enough feels the effects of heat as
much as one Of Mr.. Bsrgh's horses or
any other servant of mankind. And
when man of means sends his cat
erer out to market with a huge sun
umbrella be ought not to fail to pro.
tect his own stomach by giving that
caterer some notion of the edibles
proper for the heated term. The
same thing is true of those who are
their own caterers. The general
chorus Of citizens yesterday sang, and
may sing again tomorrow, "Oh, il is
too hot to eat I" But, hot or cold,
people who neglect the human stom-
lach Tor their own convenience will
hear from 1t. Il must be always
cared for, but people must be careful,
to Judge its capabilities for digestion
by the thermometer For instance,
Holsters and soft.shell crabs may be
eaten with inpunity when the ther.
mometer marks sixty.tive degrees, but
let the mercury shoulder eighty. five
degrees and shell fishes generally act
ike poison on the gastric juices.
The same thing is true, more or less,
about broiled ham or bacon, hot
eorned beef, flannel cakes, rye bread,
meat pies. clam fritters and dozen
otter things which may lie upon the
gastrics during heated term as Rich.
ards murdered cousins safe upon his
conscience in the tent scene. Dur
ing 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 a pound of
cure, fills our rivers and bays in July
and August with fish, whether cheap
or dear in price, art can deal with in
dozen palatable ways. Not tho
least pleasant of these in hot weather
is to ''souse" the fish, or to pickle it.
or to dress it cold with salad,
dressings, and then to wed il to beets
or tomatoes, or to serve il in fish.
balls (giying bread ad libitum) for
breakfast Eel pie in July, or the
clam chowder of the old Arcadians or
cold string beans is the form of salad,
or hash Of lamb surmounted with
poached eggs-each and all are dsin-
ty summer dishes, Let the heavy
soups and roasts be left with sorrow
and the scarlet Leaf to the September
perspectives. Shall we. however,
during these hot days disdain the
oisques and purees These are high
sounding names, but the best OF them,
with almost any kind of meat broth
Tor oasis, 10 cheap, and they may
be thickened by means of rice flour,
or OF the finest farina, or of fresh to.
mato sauce. Not the worst of all,
pstrees is to be made by boiling lob.
ster claws and thickening the liquid
with tomato and bruised biscuit. But
the prudent gastronome, during the
neat, Will postpone squashes and Gu.
cumbers Though he may remain
steadtast to the tender anti scorbutic
onionl as well as the early musket.
ball OF white wax which your green
grocer calls new potato. II the
wise pursue the gooseberry It will be
IN the shape of what the dwellers
around the Hackensack (where soon
the reed and rice birds shall be shot)
call by the good old French name Of
gooseberry-fool, which refers not 70
the brains of the eater, but to the pro.
cess by which the berries are pre-
pared. In hot weather the delicate
acid OF ripe currants is both savory
wholesome at breakfast, when, too,
should be eaten the cherry, " delight-
ing the sense of every man." as the
the Koran hath it, and the rasp>
berry, and that really new American
fruit, the cultivated blackberry. Ev-
cry physician knows how really ripe
peach will fit and stone mp" tho dis
ordered digestion even Of child.
Last of all comes a vexatious
question when the thermometer tops
ninety degrees--what to do with the
watermelon. The watermelon is a
beast maligned at street,corners, un.
der 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 cellar corner or
under Croton tap (where refrigera-
tors are wantlng), he is neither an
unpleasant nor a n-ischevous assuager
OF thirst, provided only those who
deal with him look well upon the rind
where it grows green and cry" Hold,
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