Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-05-06
FRIED SALT PORK THREE TIMES DAY

FRIED SALT PORK THREE TIMES A DAY
The following plain talk is from the San.
tartan of DR.. A N. Bell, New York
The Herald reports "a New York
journalist, who has for many years been
afflicted with dyspepsia so that he could
not eat even the most delicate fruits, re-
Gently visited Arizona, and found that he
could eat fried salt pork three times day. ~
Had he tried the same diet before going,
possibly he would have Jared quite as well.
He might have required few trips to
Coney Island or Long Beach and back,
or daily walk before dinner from Print
ing House Square to his uptown home,
to stimulate his appetite, when he would
have found the same good effects from
fried salt pork in New York as in Ari.
IONA. By "fried salt pork we would be
understood as recommending it or some
other kind of food containing a sufficient
amount of digestible fat. The difference
between salt pork and bacon, in this re-
spect, if equally well prepared. is a matter
of taste, and with either one properly
cooked and well-made hot griddle cakes,
daily, for breakfast, journalists would
IdlCl1 AuQ ~ AOCCSSdiN W oCCh "a OSbSSA
climate than may be found within easy ac-
better fortify them against the common
dangers of city filth. Fried salt pork or
bacon, to be good, should be first simmered
or parboiled in a sufficient quantity of
water to dissolve out the excess of salt,
and to make 1t tender, and then fried
brown-not to a crisp. For some
persons, a more delicate way is,
after parboiling the meat, to turn
the slices in wheaton -four batter. and fry
them. delicate fruits diet, particularly
for breakfast, which ordinarily means alb
stinence from substantial fats, is the death
of many journalists as well az other per-
SONS, whom journalists should teach to
know better. Restore the old-fashioned
"hog and hominy" to its wonted place,
and there would be such falling off in
the death rate hereabouts as would even
astonish IKE keeper OF the streets-so
much better would people be able to with
stand their vile carnations. In short,
editors should teach the people in these
ATTITUDES that, in one way or another,
ever full grown man or woman and every
youth requires about two ounces Of some
kind Of fat daily, as portion of his or her
diet, and if not taken as food, the time is
hastened when it has to be as medicine, to
simply prolong-it may be for year or
two-a miserable existence with consump.
ton OF other fatal disease in consequence
dyspepsia and loss of fat being COM
monty the first admonitions. A journalist,
or any other person in this latitude, who
long neglects to take due proportion of
fatty food to maintain bodily temperature,
will coon find himself growing lean, his
system will live upon its interstitial fat
that which is distributed throughout the
bodily tissues of healthy persons-and he
will shortly begin to have dyspeptic
symptoms, on account of the deficiency in
his food to maintain healthy nutrition.
And for this condition, it is unfortunately
too of en- the case, medicine or moonshine
is given in promotion OF the danger. For
tunste, indeed, is it ii such persons
can be dispossessed OF their fluctuations
by a trip to Arizona, or anywhere else
to restore them to a sense of their wants,
and the wit to use them. Many persons
who, from the cultivation of a vitiated
taste for delicacies, or under the influence
of bad advice, have lost the power of as
similating the tat of meats, may do much
towards regaining the lost power by the
use of well-made shortened bread
bread made of dough to which lard or
butter is added or some Of the prepara-
tions Of ground wheat or Indian meal.
OF this latter, johnny cake and cush
are particularly commendable. Johnny
cake Is made of coarse cornmeal, mixed
with boiling water and sufficient salt,
shortened by the addition of lard. 1t
should be well beaten or thoroughly
stirred, and of such Conscience as to
be easily spread on smooth board.
Thus prepared, place it upright
against proper supports on the hearth be-
fore the fire and bake it; when one side is
baked, turn it on the board and bake the
other, and when well done on both sides
serve it hot. Cush is coarse cornmeal
stirred in not water to the consistence of a
stiff paste with sufficient salt, and short
ened with lard, the same as johnny cake,
but instead of toasting before the fire, put
the dough into a skillet over a hot fire and
stir constantly till done-about forty min
utes. Serve hot.
The use OF butter and olive oil, both at
table and in cookery, should be encour-
aged, especially for young persons, whose
taste for fat should be assiduously cult
waited.