The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-08-19
Warm Table Drinks.

Ing an article from the IfOuSeh6epef on
" Cereal Coffee She desires temper
ance women to remember that the
effected without giving him " a nour-
ishment equal to the stimulant he is
struggling to be free from" She states
that alcohol depletes the vital forces,
and consequently the blood has lost
energy and requires albumen instead of
iron to give back the life that has been
slowly wasted from year to year." This,
she justly says, is to be supplied by
pure assimilative easily assimilated)
foods, scientifically prepared, and she
expresses the hope Gin which we heart
lily join) that "women will not be
bashful about investigating this i'm
portant subject and giving to the pub
lie the best thoughts they can find,
based on experiments in the scientific
feeding of the human family"
1t is 10 doubt fact that warm table
drinks are grateful to many stomachs,
and beneficial to those in any degree
weakened, either by disease or over
work. Thoroughly healthy stomachs,
however, usually prefer cool drinks,
though by no means injured by warm
ones. And at any rate the free use of
diluents with the food is necessary to
proper digestion and absorption, as well
as to assimilation. There is no more
pernicious quackery than that which in
sists on restraint in the dietary uses of
diluent fluids, and there is no doubt
that their free use, either warm or cold =,
is essential to the preservation or the
restoration of health. The substitution
of vegetable albuminoids in large de-
gree for starchy matter in the prepara-
ton of material for warm table drinks
is very well, though the latter should
not be entirely excluded, as in its tor
relied (browned) state it supplies a
saccharine element which is both agree
able and beneficial.
The cereal coffee - is apparently a
proprietary preparation, of which the
exact composition is not stated in the
article taken from the Housekeeper. 1t
is, however, supposed to be chiefly com
posed of the Drowned and cooked glu-
ten of wheat and barley, from which
the starch has been separated-a thing
easily done by the new "roller pro-
cess" of grinding. The Housekeepe,
says:
''The barley portion is carefully
Drowned, so as to impart to the infusion
pleasant, parched flavor. The por-
ton derived from wheat is thoroughly
cooked, so that its nutritive qualities
are speedily impaired to the infusion.
STEPPED in mixture of milk and water,
nourishing fluid results, having a
flavor not wholly unlike that of Java
coffee and containing more than ten
times as much food value. If we COM
pare this rich beverage with that OBJ
tanned from real coffee, we discover
that the cereal coffee would be worth
So per pound-equal in nutriment to
ten pounds of old Java at thirty cents
per pound. Chicory, and peas, and
beans, and rice, and corn, and rye, and
sweet potatoes, and host of other sub
stances have been Drowned and in
fused in boiling water as substitutes for
coffee, but they have all failed, because
they have all been based upon starch
in various forms. Real coffee contains
little starch, and any successful sub
stitute for it must be quite free from
that tasteless and nearly useless :? !
food substance. The cereal coffee OF
the Health Food Company appears tC
fulfill every indication and to meet the
precise want. The beverage produced
from it is powerful supporter of hui
man life, and is an appetizing and de-
licious adjunct to the daily bill of fare
: while leaving the brain and nerves un
injured by any noXious stimulating
power. Lacking the fannie acid and
the powerful narcotizing principle OF
tea, it neither deranges digestion, in
duces constipation, nor lowers the vita
tone, as does that potent agent of evil
being conducted in vacuo, create nc
deadly, empyreumatic oil, such as
always exists in Drowned coffee and its
substitutes.
This sounds little too much like 6
"puff " for an article that, after all, il
probably no more than modified form
of d" crust-coffee," yet no doubt many
of our readers will be glad of this no
tice, and will like to try convenient
uniform and carefully-made article Of
,, this kind.
In this connection another part of the
same article comes in well. After re-
ferring to Horace Greeley's use of hot
: water, milk and sugar as a table drinl
!, Zone long familiar to our own table under
, the name of cambria tea ", the House
r keeper says, with the force of true pre-
= sentatiOn:
" He could not employ tea or COTE.
without suffering the pangs of indiges
ton. This is true of multitudes, many
1 of whom are unaware of the reason fo
' their gastric uneasiness. They con
/ tinue to swallow the very fluid which
. destroys their comfort, vainly imagining
9 the while that stronger dose will Civ,
nature an extra jog and accomplish