Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-11-27
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MEAT BREAD. Scheurer. Kestner has
discovered the remarkable fact that the
fermentation of bread causes the complete
digestion of meat He found that beef
steak cut into four pieces, and mixed with
-four and yeast, disappeared entirely dur
ing the process OF fermentation, its nutri-
tive principles becoming Incorporated with
the bread. The meat would also appear
capable of preservation for an indefinite
period in It's new state for loaves of meat
bread, made in 1873, have been submitted
to the French Academy of Sciences, where
not trace of worms or moldiness was
observable. At the beginning of his ex.
perirnents, NJ. Seheurer- Kestner used raw
meat, three parts OF which, finely nsinced,
he mixed with five parts of -four
and the same quantity OF yeast.
Sufficient water was added to make
the dough, which in due time began to fer
ment After two or three hours the meat
had disappeared, and the bread WAS baked
in the ordinary manner. Thus prepared,
the meat bread had a disagreeable, sour
taste, which was avoided by cooking the
meat for an hour with sufficient water to af
forwards molsten the flour. The meat must
be carefully deprived OF fat, and only have
sufficient salt to bring out the flavor, as
salt, by absorbing moisture from the air,
would tend to spoil the bread A part of
the beef may be replaced with advantage
by salt lard, which is found to improve the
flavor. The proportion of meat to -four
should not exceed one-half, so as to insure
complete digestion. Bread made with
suitable proportion of veal is said to far
nish excellent soup for the sick and wound
ed. SANITARY Record.
DIETING AS A REMEDY. There are few
bodily ailments which are aggravated, and
in some cases rendered incurable by in
sufficient diet; but with the exception of
diphtheria and few others, nine out of
ten of all ordinary ailments are controlled,
are arrested, are permanently cured by
wise diminution of the amount of food
eaten. This is particularly the case when
there is no decided ailment but general
feeling of discomfort or of unwellness In
all actively inflammatory maladies, where
there is acute pain anywhere, total absti-
hence from all substantial food, from every
thing liquid or solid, except hot teas, is
the sheet anchor of safety, when not
extended beyond thirty.six hours. No
one should venture on longer
abstinence on any occasion without the
advice of a physician. All pain is caused
by over. distended blood-vessels pressing
against some neighboring nerve. Hence
the quickest way of relieving any ordinary
pain is to diminish the amount OF blood in
the vessels of the part by bleeding. But
there is a safer, a better and more enduring
relief in cutting off the supply OF blood
and as blood is made out of the food we
eat, it must be apparent that ii, on the feeling
of pain or discomfort, We cease eating ab-
solutely, that pain must begin to diminish
within six hours, that being the time re-
quired for covering food into blood and if
no focd is eaten no more blood can be
made, while if the amount in the system
is diminished at the rate of two OF more
pounds in every q hours of inyahdism,
there must soon be relief.
TOMATO CATsUP-Wash half bushel
OF ripe tomatoes, cut them In pieces and
remove all green portions, as they injure
the color Cook until soft, then strain
through a sieve, pressing well, to obtain
the pulp. For this quantity allow half an
ounce OF cayenne pepper and scant tea
cupful OF salt. Stir these into the catsup.
The spices, being dark, will injure the
color if ground and put in loose. To
avoid this, brulse an ounce each of whole
cloves, cinnamon, allspice, mace, celery
seed and half an ounce of black pepper
corns Tie them securely IN thin mus.
lin bag, and when the strained tomatoes
have boiled an hour and half put In
the bag OF spices and boil as much longer.
Add quart of good cider vinegar, boil
for half an hour and turn into stone jar
to cool, after which mix a pint of brandy
or pure spirits thoroughly with the catsip,
and bottle 1t, putting a strip OF hcrseradish
root i'll each. Use new corks to fit the
bottles, soak them in hot water, then
pound in as tight as possible and cut the
cork off even with the top. Make &C.
ment by melting together two ounces of
resin and one each of beeswax and gum
shellac. Invert each bottle into the hot
cement and when cold dip again. Keep
in COOL dark place. The same cement
NAV be used for sealing tin cans, and will
be found much better than that which is
bought ready prepared in sticks.
FISH. -Fresh-wster fish are seldom
boiled; but pike thus cooked, with
nCTSe-r1utSH SAASG Is al
excellent dish and perch, with sorrel
sauce or mayonnaiss, is equally good. In
boiling fish the whole secret consists in
never letting the boil assume state of
turbulence, but to keep it in gentle,
equable temperature until the fish Is done,
otherwise the skin viii be split, the outer
portions overdone and the fish next to the
bone utterly raw. In the cooking of fish
the removal of the scales is too often con-
sidered very unlmpertant part OF the
preparation but to break the skin of some
fish is to insure its being totally spoiled in
the after.cooking. No sharp instrument
should be used. A course towel is some
times enough, or a paper knife; or, with
the perch family, the thumb-na forced
from tail to head. the scales being previ-
eusly loosened by the tail being fastened
by fork to the dresser and the head
pulled 4 The Caterer.
EFFECT or PERFUMERY ON HEALTH.-An
Italian professor has made some very agree
able researches, resulting in the discovery
that vegetable perfumes exercise posi-
lively healthful influence on the atmos
phere. converting its oxygen into ozone and
thus increasing It's oxidiZing influence
The essences found to develop the largest
quantity OF ozone are those of the cherry,
laurel, clover, lavender, mint, juniper,
fennel and bergamont; those that give it
in smaller quantities are anise, nutmeg and
thyme The flowers of the narcissus, hya-
cinth, mignonnette, heliotrope and lily of
the valley, develop ozone in closed vessels.
Flowers destitute of perfume do not de.
velop it, and those which have slight per-
fume develop it in small quantities. Rea-
soning from these facts the Professor
recommends the cultivation of flowers in
marshy districts, and in all places infested
with animal carnations, on account of the
powerful oxidizing influences OF ozone.
The inhabitants of such regions should, he
says, surround their houses with beds of
the most odorous flowers. = The Me.
chanic.
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