Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1881-09-01
Summer Housekeeping.

Appetites are capricious; dishes heartily
eaten one day and sent away untasted
the next. while the praiseworthy
economy practiced at King Arthur's
Court, where "wbat they could not
fried. becomes an impossibility. Cook
cd meats will no. keep long. even in the
refrigerator, while cooked vegetables
sour out of the ice-chest. or, Z kept in
it, become ..Gai. stale. and I'M
profitable.
In this state of affairs it is well to fol-
low the example of jewellers in hot
climates, who live principally on fruits
and fresh vegetables. Dates and bread
form the chief diet IF 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 r enchman's bill of fare
for the hot weather Indeed, nature in
this respect as in others, is a law unto
herself. and he who eats much meat in
hot weather is apt 10 pay the penalty
for it in 4 clogged brain and feeling of
general heaviness. Breakfast. especial
ly, should in warm wethcr be a light
meal. Min aud oatmeal or cracked
wheat. soft-boilci eggs. bread. which
however. need not be stale. fresh butter
and fruit are far more refreshing and
healthy et with the thermometer up
among the nincties than hot cakes and
fried meat, washed down with hot
coffee.
The athletes in training for the Greek
games were restricted TO diet of bread
and milk and fruit, and in our own day
the prospective prize-iighter is strictly
limited in his supply of animal food.
bio Lewis gives il as his opinion that
meats, except lambs and chicken. should
be eschcWed in hot weather, but then
bio Lewis would make oatmeal the staff
of life. and ascribcs most of the ills that
flesh is heir TO 10 in!empcrance in eat
ing. Yet, while lone man meat is
another man 5 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 he kept
up and an excess of carbon is require Il
10 keep us warm. In this state of af-
fairs il Is matter OF congratulation
that Nature provides us with 50 many
dainty dishes, all ready 20 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
dish 10 set before King" Tomatoes.
eaten raw, are n 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 a pallful of ice, the rich milk. or,
still better. cream. has but to be mixed
with the crushed fruit. swcetened, and
left 10 freeze itself. Covered with an
old blanket or piece of carpeting, the
process of congealing will go on slowly
hut surely. with small aid from YOU.
even ii our freezer be but tin bucket,
only III that ease 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, ii 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 nour ,shment
can be eaten with SO little effort. Veg
otablc soups are easily made. aud well
made a:c del cious.
Against lies. that plague OF summer.
two weapons are powerful-clcanliness
and darkness. The table should be
cleaned as soon rs meals are over and
all crumbs carefully brushed up from
table aud floor. The dining-room
should be kept dark between meals;
but it will no; do simply 10 shut up the
ROOM shutting the dies init. Close every
door and window but one and drive the