St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-11
GOOD COOKING
And Palatable Food Needed for
tho ant of DuSneaafics

the Improvement or DySpeptlcs.
There used to be an old notion, which
obtained even among people of intelli-
gence, that so-called ''good things" that
is to say, articles of food that were,
pleasant to the taste, should be tabooedl
by dyspeptics. From this notion rose
the other equally absurd one that all
sorts of tasteless and insipid messes.
from which the family dog and cat
would turn with glances of iil-concealed
scorn, we're the very things to cheer the
discouraged stomach and give fresh life
to its saddened proprietor. This mis-
take has created prejudice against
plainly cooked food, and it has become
the proud boast of certain patent medi-
cine vendors that by taking their pre-
scriptions the victims OF indigestion can
eat what they like.
Dyspeptics commonly regard the
average so-called good cook as nothing
better than culinary criminal. All
her preparations pail upon them, and
they remind one. as they sit at we'll
spread table. of the shipwrecked marin-
ers who had water, water all around,
and not a drop to drink. These un.
fortunates have food in plenty all
around, and not bit to eat. Confident
must the physician be who would not
hesitate to undertake the cure of any
confirmed dyspeptic. Yet it could be
done by diet alone. All the pills should
be buried in the back yard and their
graves abundantly watered by the con-
tents of all the medicine bottles in the
house.
There is no one who stands so much in
need of appealing, wholesome. nutri-
tious food as the dyspeptic. He is thin
because he is half starved, and he eats
a great deal because his weak stomach
extracts as little nutriment from a
pound of food as strong one would
from quarter of pound. No doubt
he eats rapidly and reads the paper at
the same time. and quite likely that he
sits down to the table when lie is tired.
and rushes Off to work the nom ent the
meal is over. These bad habits can he
overcome by the dyspeptic; all the rest
may he left to his cook. The most inn
portant fact for the latter parsonage to
remember is that, in order to digest we'll,
FOOD MUST TASTE GOOD"
What is unpleasant in the mouth can
not be other than disagreeable in the
stomach. But the appetizing taste
must nof be impaired by condiments,
which are as injurious in dyspeptic'S
diet as painted blush OH the cheek of
innocence. Every article of food has
distinct character of its own; and the
object of artistic cookery is to preserve
this delicate, individual flavor, and not
to cover il coarsely with pepper OF nut
meg. When food that is not highly sea-
soned is disliked, the probability is that
the material is bad in the first place, or
else that it is badly cooked. A simple
dish cooked to perfection needs not the
foreign aid of condiment, but is, when
unspced, spiced the most. Better to
dyspeptic is dinner of boiled rice, in
which every grain is dry. soft snowy
ries with stomachic strife thereafter.
The only Ingredient necessary to the
success of even the simplest dish is
brains. Our latest kitchen assistant
was surprised to find that her poached
eggs were all hard when they had been
cooked only minute ago and she had
set them in the oven for that length of
time to keep hot. She was surprised
again when we distinguished between
loaf of bread that had a piece of butter
the size OF thimble worked into it pre-
vious to baking, aud one that was not
thus contaminated. Shortening, SAYS
dyspeptic acquaintance, is so called be-
cause it shortens the life of those who
habitually use 1t.
Nothing is more indigestible than ar
ticles of food into which lard. butter or
other fat has been cooked. Some house,
keepers always spoken of as good make
practice of putting lard, or butter, OF
saleratus into their bread. This, con-
sidered as
A STAFF OF LIFE -
is broken reed. Others, who know
that particle OF fat in soup renders it
in some degree indigestible, will blandiy
assure the owner of weak stomach
that her cake is very plain, when he
single slice would lie on his conscious
ness like the memory of crime. Every
thing that is fried is open to the same