Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1882-07-13
4 Light Diet for Hot Weather.

"What shall we cook is the cry ct
the housekeeper during the heated term.
Cook no greasy food, Summer de-
mands light diet. with basis OF sweet
June butter and light, wholesome bread.
Commence meal by slicing up some
eucumbers into deep dish and sirew-
ing pounded ice on them. add dish of
scrambled eggs, some thin slices of
boiled ham and another dish of berries.
salad of new beets and lettuce, and
there is meal. light, satisfactory and
easily digested. 1t can be varied by
boiled chicken and escalloped tomatoes
or salmon steaks with Saratoga pota-
toes and a strawberry shortcake for
desert. People who are fond of carrots
can prepare a good dish by boiling new
carrots and potatoes together-the car
rots need TO cook half hour before the
potatoes are added. Mash them togeth-
er with cream and butter. and eat with
meats.
A meat and potato pie is good sum-
mer dish. Chip some sweet roast beef
or veal-mutton is too strong-into a
fine hash, mix it with cold gravy or
make gravy for it; fill tin pan half
full; add some hot mashed potatoes
cooked for the occasion, making crust
of them to cover the pan to the top; set
il in the oven and bake half an hour, or
until the potatoes are well Drowned and
the meat heated through.
New apples make good sauce and
delicious boiled dumplings. Make a
light rich biscuit dough; pare and core
the apples; cut out rounds of dough and
shape them about the apple to make an
average thickness; tie each dumping
separately in square of cloth and drop
them into pot of boiling water which
must not stop boiling until they are
cooked, which will be in half an hour
Eat them hot with butter and sugar.
Avoid heavy feeding or over-eating in
hot weather; drink lemonade freely and
if possible eat lemon with sugar before
the first meal. Use plenty of salt in
food; take salt baths; never battle with
in four hours after eating a hearty
meal. and be serupulously careful not
TO check perspiration, and eat at regular
intervals, and without haste. A Lon
don papers gives some good advice on
this point: .'lt is a mistake TO eat
quickly. Mastication performed in
haste must be imperfect. even with the
best of teeth. and due admiXture of the
salivary secretion with the food cannot
take place. When a crude mass of in
adequately crushed muscular fiber. or
undivided solid material of any descrip-
ton, is thrown into the stomach. it acts
as mechanical irritant. and sets up 4
condition in the mucous membrane
lining of that organ which greatly I'M
pedeS, if it does not altogether prevent
the progress of digestion. When the
practice of eating quickly and filling the
stomach with unprepared food is
habitual, the digestive organ is rendered
incapable of performing its proper
functions. Either much larger
quantity of food than would be neces-
sary under natural conditions is re-
quired. OF the system suffers from lack
Of nourishment. Those animals which
were intended to feed hurriedlv were
either gifted with the power of rr.mina-
ton or provided with gizzards Man is
not so furnished, and II is fair TO assume
hat he was intended to eat slowly. p
Detroit Post and Tribune.