Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-08-03
WHAT TO EAT,
Housekeeper's Should Understand til
Chemical Elements of Food.

Housekeeper's Should Understand the
Chemical Elements of Food.
There are few subjects of the day
around which cluster SO many theories as
that of food. 1t is not alone the quantity
but the quality of what one eats that salts
fies the appetite and nourishes the body.
No housekeeper has mastered the art of
cooking who does not know something of
the chemical elements of food, and the
purpose it serves when taken into the sys-
TEN, and it is particularly important that
she should know what will best supply the
real needs of her growing family, as the
more perfectly it is adapted to their wants
the more vigorous will be the body and
more perfect the development of muscle,
nerve and brain.
The first condition in the selection and
preparation of food is to know what is
adapted to the peculiar condition of those
to be fed; the child requires food COM
posed of different elements from that
which best suits the adult, while the diet
of the brain worker who leads sedentary
life, and whose work makes heavy de-
mands ON the nervous system, should vary
from that of man of active pursuits,
whose business calls him into the open air
and furnishes him with exercise. The use
of knowledge in cooking is to teach how to
supplement one kind of food for another
which contains the needed elements in
which the first is deficient.
The substance richest in matchmaking
is albumep, and is contained in the white
of an egg and the lean of meat. The car
bon needed to sustain the heat of the body
is most abundant in vegetables and cereals
which furnish large amount of starch !;
oil is also of importance in supplying car
bon to the system, but does not nourish
the muscle. Butter is the least objection
able of all fats; beef fat is more whole
some than lard, while the fat from salt
pork and smoked bacon is less injurious
than that from the fresh pork. Carbon is
also supplied by the use of sugar, which,
in moderate quantities, has no i'll effect
Nearly all fruits are rich in sugar, hence
their worth as food. Eggs contain great
deal of carbon, and are for that reason ex-
cellent food to combine with articles COM
posed largely of starch. Phosphorus is
another necessary element of food, espec-
tally where nerves and brain are over
worked, and is found in fish, oysters, game,
cheese, and some vegetables.
Milk contains ali the necessary material
for nourishing the system, but it is not suf-
fcient for Woodworking or grown people,
who require more solid food.
Buttermilk is wholesome, particularly
in warm weather, on account of the Tactic
acid it contains, being an excellent tonic
for the stomach.
Bread and milk make suitable diet for
growing children, as they supply not only
heat and muscle, but are rich in material
for the growth of the bone.
In feeding family the wise house
keeper should then consider well their
wants. The healthy, fun-loving boys who
hunt play ball and skate will require meat
and rich food, while the little ones in the
nursery and school room will relish deli
cate, nourishing diet. When the weather
is cold, carbon in the shape of heating
food will be necessary, but in summer the
cooling effects Of fruit and vegetables will
supply it in better form.
Variety of food is always to be obtained.
knowledge only is necessary to select that
best suited to present needs.