The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1881-10-13
HOR and HOminy---A Plea for q More Ex-
tended COnsumptiOn.


The Sdnitaridp quotes a statement
| from the New York Herald that "a
New York journalist, who hadsfor many
years been afflicted with dyspepsia so
that he could not eat even the most
delicate fruit, recently visited Arizona,
and found that he could eat fried salt
pork three times day." and comments
upon it as follows:
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
Branch and back, or a daily walk be-
tore 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
rec ompending it or some other kind OF
food containing a sufficient amount of
diCeSti6te tat. The difference between
sail pork and bacon in this respect, if
eq tally well prepared, Is q matter of
taste, and with either one properly
cooked and well made hot griddle cakes
da ly for breakfast, journalists would
raj ely find it necessary to seek better
eli nate than may be found within easy
ac' ess to New York; or a diet which
WI D0bJ6T IOTIlLy JH0In H. RdlilSJ bu0 COIu-
mdh dangers of city filth.
Fried salt pork or bacon, to be good.
should be first simmered or parboiled
in sufficient quantity of water to dis
solve out the excess of salt, and to make
it tender, and then fried brown-not to
crisp. For some persons, a more
delicate way is, after the parboiling, to
turn the slices in wheaton -four batter
and then fry them.
delicate fruit diet, particularly
for breakfast, which ordinary means
abstinence from substantial fats, is the
death of many journalists as well as
other persons, whom journalists should
teach to know better. Restore the old
fashioned "hog and hominy" to its
wanted place and there would be such
falling off in the death rates hereabouts
as would even astonish the keeper of the
streets-so much better would people
be able to Withstand their vile emana-
tions. 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 in
fastened when it has to be as medicine,
TO simply prolong-it may be for year
or two-a miserable existence with con-
sumption or other fatal disease in con-
acknowledgements" and loss of fat
being commonly the first admonitions.
A journalist, or any other person in
this latitude, who long neglects to take
q due proportion of fatty food to main
tain bodily temperature, will soon find
himself growing lean, his system viii
live upon interstitial fat-that which 10
distributed throughout the bodily tiS-
sues of healthy persons-and he viii
shortly begin to have dyspeptic symp-
toms on account of the deficiency in his
food to maintain healthy nutrition. And
for this condition, it is unfortunately
too often the case, medicine or moon
shine is given in promotion of the dam
ger. Fortunate, indeed, is it if such
persons can be dispossessed of their in
fatuations by a trip to Arizona, or any
where else to restore them to sense of
their wants and the wit to use them.
Many persons who, from the cultivation
of vitiated taste for delicacies, or un-
der the influence of bad advice, have
lost the power of assimilating the fat 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 preparations of ground
wheat or Indian meal. OF this latter,
''Johnny cake" or ''cushh are particu-
larly commendable. tI. HtI
Johnny cake is made of coarse corn
meal, mixed with boiling water and
sufficient salt, shortened by the addi-
ton of lard. 1t should be well beaten
or thoroughly stirred, and of such con-
sistence as to be easily spread on
smooth board. Thus prepared, place it
upright against proper supports on the
hearth before the fire and bake 1T; when
one side is baked, turn it on the board
and bake the other, and when well done
on both sides serve it hot. .rt ffr.
Cush is coarse corn meal stirred In
hot water to the, consistency of stiff
paste with sufficient salt and shortened
with lard, the same as johnny cake,
but instead of toasting before the fire
put the dodgh into skillet over hot
fire and stir constantly till done-aboub
forty minutes. Serve hot.
The use of butter and olive oil, both
at table and in cookery, should be en-
couraged, especially for young persons,
whose taste for fat should be assiducus
lV cultivated. s.f-.t ..--I...I.f ........ .