The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-05-13
Fried Salt Pork Three Times {
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THE Sanitariau for May.l

The Herald reports "a New York journal.
ist, who has for many years been afflicted with
dyspepsia so that he could not eat even the
most delicate fruits, recently 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 WE'LL
He might have required few trips to Coney
Island or Long Branch and back, or daily
walk before dinner from Printing 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 Arizona By "fried salt pork we would
be understood as recommending it or some 9TH
or kind of food containing a sufficient quantity
Of digestible fat.
The difference between salt pork and bacon
in this respect, il equally we'll prepared, is q
matter of taste, and with either one properly
cooked and with hot griddle cakes daily
for breakfast, journalists would rarely find it
necessary to seek better climate than may be
found within easy access to New York; or
diet which will 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 it tender, and then fried
brown-not to a crisp. For some persons
more delicate way is, after the parboiling, to
turn the slices in wheaton flour, and then fry
them.
delicate fruits" diet, particularly for break
fast. which ordinarily means abstinence from
substantial fats, is the death of many Journal
lists as we'll as other persons whom journalists
should teach to know better. Restore the old
fashioned "hog and hominy" to its wonted
place, and there would be such a falling off in
the death-rate hereabouts as would even aston
ish the keeper of the streets-so much better
would people be able to withstand their vile
emanations. In short, editors should teach
the people in these latitudes that, in one way
or another, every full-grown man and 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
fastened when it has to be as medicine, to
simply prolong-it may be for year or two-a
miserable existence with consumption or other
fatal disease in consequence; dyspepsia and loss
OF fat being commonly the first admonitions
A journalist, or any other person in this lati-
tude, who long neglects to take due pro-
portion of fatty food to maintain bodily tem-
p6IdtuT6J Will SOuu liu hihoCil SfONiuS
lean, his system will live upon its intersti-
tial 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 con-
dition, it is unfortunately too often the case,
medicine or moonshine is given in promotion
of the danger. Fortunate, indeed, is
it, IL such persons Can be dispossess-
ed of their infatuation by a trip to
Arizona, or anywhere else, to restore them
to q 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 assimilating
the fat of meats, may do much towards re-
gaining 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
preparations of ground wheat or Indian meal.
| OF this latter, johnny cake and cush are par
| ticuarly commendable.
Johnny cake is made OF coarse corn meal,
mixed with boiling water aud sufficient salt,