The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1882-08-17
A Light Diet for Hot Weather.

"What shall we cook?'' ia the crv OF
the housekeeper during the heated term.
COOK no greasy food! Summer de-
mands light diet, with basis of sweet
eiune butter and light, wholesome bread.
commence meal by sliciug up some
Cucumbers into u deep dish and strew-
ing pounded ice on them, add q dish of
scrambled eggs, some thin slices of
boiled ham and another dish of berries
~ salad OF new beets and lettuce, and
9here Is q meal, light. satisfactory and
easily digested. 1t can be varied by
boiled chicken and cscalloped tomatoes
ar salmon steaks with Saratora Dota-
toes and a strawberry shortcake for
'lesert. People who are fond of carrots
a'an prepare q good dish by boiling new
carrots and potatoes together-the car
Tots 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 veai-mutton is too strong-into n
fine hash, mix it with cold gravy or
make q gravy for it; fill tin pan half
full; add some hot mashed potatoes
cooked for the occasion, making n crust
Ot them to cover the pan to the top: set
it IN the oven and bake half an hour, or
until the potatoes are we'll Drowned and
the meat heated through.
New apples make good sauce and
delicious boiled dumplingS Make q
light rich biscuit dough- pare and cor"
The apples; cut out rounds of dough and
shape them about the apple to make an
average thickness; tie each dumping
separately in q square of cloth and drop
them into q pot of boiling water which
Snust not stop boiling until they are
cooked which will 10 I'm half an hour.
lat them hot with bitter and sugar
Avoid heavy feeding or ovcr-catino in
hot weather; drink lemonade freely and
j. possible eat Il lemon with sugar before
the first meal. Use plenty of salt in
aood; take salt baths, never bathe with
in four hours after eating q hearty
'ueal, and be scrupulously careful not
10 check perspiration. and eat at regular
intervals, and without haste a Lon
don papers gives some good advice on
ans point: 'lt is mistake TO eat
quickly. Mastication performed in
haste must be imperfect, even with the
best OF teeth, and due admixturc Of the
salivary secretion with the food cannot
take place. When crude mass OF in
adequately crushed muscular fiber, or
undivided solid material OF any descrip-
A'oh' 10 ChIoWn intO Inc stomach, 1t acts
f's mechanical irritant, and sets up
condition in the mucous membrane
jim ng of that organ which greatly i'm
rede5' II it does not altogethor prevent
the progress of digestion. Wien 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-
Qulrcd, or the system suffers from lack
OF nourishment. Those animals which
were intended to feed hurriedly were
either gifted with the power of rumina
ton or provided with gizzards. Man Is
not SO furnished, and it is fair to assume
that he was Intended to eat slowly.n-
Detroit Post and Tli67fNc.