Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1881-08-26
Summer Housekeeping.

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Summer Housekeeping.
It is in the dog days that the souls OF
housekeepers are most severely tried
Appetltos are capricious; dishes heartily
eaten one day and sent away untasted
the next, while the praiseworthy
economy practiced at King Arthurfs
Court, where "what they could not
eat that day, the Queen next morning
fried becomes an impossibility. Cook
ed meats will not keep long, even in the
refrigerator, while cooked vegetables
sour out of the ice -chest, or, ii kept in
1t, become "llat. stale, and un-
profitable"
In this state of affairs it is well to fol-
low the example of dwellers in hot
climates, who live principally on fruits
and fresh vegetables. Dates and bread
form the chief diet of the desert Arab,
and the hardy East Indian coolie sub
sists almost entirely on rice. Bouillon,
that is, light soup, fresh fruit, salad,
and coffee is the Fienchman's bill of fare
for the hot weather. Indeed, nature in
this respect MS in others, is a law unto
herself, and he who eats much meat in
hot weather is apt TO pay the penalty
for it in q clogged brain and feeling of
general heaviness. Breakfast, especial
", should in warm wcther be light
meal Milk and oatmeal or cracked
wheat, soft-boiled eggs, bread, which
however, need not be stale, fresh butter
and fruit arc far more refreshing and
healthy d ct with the thermometer up
among the ninetes than hot cakes and
fried meat, washed down with hot
coffee.
The athletes in training for the Greek
games were restricted to a diet of bread
end milk and fruit, and in our own day
the prospective prize-fghter is strictly
limited in his supply of animal food.
Dio Lewis gives it rs his opinion that
meats, except lambs and chicken, should
be eschewed in hot weather, but then
Dio Lewis would make oatmeal the staff
of life, and ascribes most of the ills that
flesh is heir to to intemperance in eat
ing. Yet, while Zone mans meat is
another mans s poison" the fact remains
that in warm weather much less animal
food is necessary than in cold, when
the fires, so to speak, need to be kept
up and an excess of carbon is required
, to keep us warm. In this state of af-
fairs it is matter of congratulation
that Nature provides us with so many
dainty dishes, all ready to be eaten.
Strawberries, raspberries, blueberries,
blackberries and peaches may all come
to the table without the smell of fire
having passed upon them, and, eaten
with fresh country cream, are "a dainty
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eaten raw, are a sovereign remedy for
biliousness.
In the country, where fruit and milk
are abundant, ice-cream, that most de-
licious of hot-weather dishes, costs but
very little. Given five minute freezer
and pailful of ice, the rich milk, or,
still better. cream, has but to be mixed
with the crushed fruit, sweetened, and
left to freeze itself. Covered with an
old blanket or piece of carpeting, the
process of congealing will go on slowly
but surely, with small aid from you,
even ii your freezer be but tin bucket,
only in that case you must cut up the
cream two or three times from the bot
tom with knife while freezing, in or
der to prevent the formation of crystals
OF ice in the freezer.
A popular fallacy condemns soup as
too hot for warm weather. On the
contrary, it is one of the best of sum-
mer dishes. In well made soup the
process of digestion is half accom-
plished, and nothing else except beef
tea, containing as much nourishment
can be eaten with so little effort. Veg
etable soups are easily made, and well
made axe delicious.
Against flies, that plague of summer,
two weapons are powerful-cleanlines
and darkness. The table should be
cleaned as soon as meals are over and
all crumbs carefully brushed up from
table and floor. The dining-room
should be kept dark between meals;
but it will not do simply to shut up the
room. shutting the dies it. Close every
door and winuow but one and drive the
flies out through that This is by nc
means so difficult as it appears upon
paper, and practice enables one to be-
come quite an expert at the task.
Air all sleeping rooms thoroughly
every morning, and ii possible sun the
mattresses occasionally. Oftenat night,
when the heat is unbearable, wet
cloth stretched over the window blind
will cool the room as though shower
had fallen, and every one knows how
watering the pavement in front of the
door will freshen the hot, dry air. Thi!
principle of the reduction of the TEN
perature by evaporation is capable o
much practical application. In Indi;
and other tropical countries, where ic,
is almost unknown, the natives coo
their water for drinking by suspendn,
their water-bottles, which are of porou
earthenware, in brisk current of air
caused by the punkahs or large fans o
the country, which process is said t,
cool it rapidly and thoroughly. Blu
above all, the great secret of doin,
housework with comfort in warn
weather is to do it rs much as possibl
in the early morning, resting in tn
middle of the day. PHILADELPHIA Press