The Rugbeian. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1881-1882, 1881-07-16
Dog.Day Dietetics.
SUGGESTIONS FOR MIDSUMMER House.
KEEPING.
Philadelphia Press.

I'll in the dog-days that the souls of
housekeepers are most severely tried.
Appetites are capricious; dishes heartily
eaten one day are set away untasted the
next, while the praiscworthy economy
practiced at King Arthur's Court, where
"what they could not eat that day, the
Queen next morning fried" becomes an
impossibility. Cooked meats will not
keep long, even in the refrigerator, while
cooked vegetables sour out of the ice
chest, or If kept in it become Y" fiat, stale,
and Improbable.
In this state of affairs, it is we'll to follow
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 subsists almost
entirely on rice. Bouillon, that is, light
soup, fresh fruit, salad, and coffee is the
Frenchman's bill Of fare for the hot
weather. Indeed, nature, in this respect
as in SO many others, is law unto itself,
and he who eats much meat in hot weather
is apt to pay the penalty for it in clogged
brain and feeling of general hcaviness.
Breakfast especially, should be light
meal in warm weather. Milk and oat-
meal, or cracked wheat, soft-boiled eggs,
bread, which, however, need not be stale,
fresh butter and fruit, arc far more
refreshing and healthy diet with the ther-
mometer up among the nineties than hot
cakes and fried meat washed down with
hot coffee.
The athletes in training for the G1eek
games were restricted to diet of bread
and 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 as his opinion that meats,
except chicken and lamb, 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 eating.
Yet, while "One mans meat is another
mans poison" the fact remains that in
warm weather much less animal food is
necessary than in cold, when the fires, 50
to speak, need to be kept up and an excess
Of carbon is required to keep us warm
In this state of affairs it is matter Of con-
graduation that nature provides us with
so many dainty dishes, all ready to be
eaten. Strawberries, raspberries, blue
berries, 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 "dainty dish
to set before king" Tomatoes, eaten
raw, are sovereign remedy for bilious
ness.
! In the country, where fruit and milk
are abundant, ice cream, that most de-
icious of hot weather dishes, costs but
very little. Given fve-minute freezer
and pailful of ice, the rich milk, or, still
better, cream, has but to be mixed with
the crushed fruit, sweetcned, and left t.
freeze itself. Covered with an old blanke,
or piece Of carpeting, the process Of con
gealing will go on slowly but surely, will
small aid from you, even if your freeze
be but tin bucket, only in that case yo,
must cut up the cream two or three time
/ from the bottom with a knife Will
freezing, in order to prevent the formation
, of crystals of ice in the freezer.
A popular fallacy condemns soup as to-
7 hot for warm weather. On the contrar
it is one of the best of summer dishes.