The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28
Honey Al Food and Medicine.

The wholesale and extensive con-
sumption of sugar as saccharine
iood in a pure state, OR when entrust-
ID to the art of the kitchen, is dele,e:-
lous to the health. In the preparations
Of food for the table, and when the Sc
lection is left to the individual, who
gives no thought to health, food, and
its selection is prepared with reference
to the palate, and a pandering to the
taste. If hunger in all cases was a
healthy craving, and foods We're prop
erly prepared, this would be all right.
But it is not-not in the ma Ority Of
cases.
If the kitchen could return sugar in
to the same conditions when in cane
and beets, and when eating our palat-
able dishe. we could eat it SO mingled
in bulk foods, it would be all right
and good. The adult or child that
goes to extreme, or is considered too
nice to cat anything else than cake, is
or will be the physicians charge as
much as the all-corn-fed porker or
sucking will need cholera medicine.
Extensive use of sugar on fruits is
not as bad as the cake and cookie
mania that RACES in SO many kitchens.
The fruit acids largely neutralize the
indiscriminate and injudicious use of
sugar. 1t is no serious thing to eat
considerable saccharine food in pure
state, but not in the form of pure re-
fined sugar.
If eaten and taken in the form of
honey, it at once becomes valuable
medicine food. Instead of having it
given us in this form in mixture with
bulk foods, as in the cane and beet,
we have it mingled with fruit juices
exuded from flowers, highly charged
with medicinal properties in the aiche-
my of nature, and the apothecary of
the beehive.
The advantages of honey as medi-
cine or food are too extensive to be
considered at length. Honey taken
as food becomes powerful medi-
elmo to tho sugar- fed and half diseased,
and many must begin on small guam
titles and acquire an appetite for it..
Many declare against it, although they
like it, but claim that it does not agree
with them. In these cases the person
either pursues an improper diet, or
eats raw unripe honey.
Honey [ consider cold weather
food. During the hot weather we get
sufficient saccharine food by sugaring
acid fruits in early summer. In late
summer and early fall the toothsome
grape and the delicious summer and
fall apple furnish sufficient; but when
these are gone, and cool weather sets
in, and meats and fats are consumed
in large quantities, fine, well-ripened
clover, linden or buckwheat honey is
a fine corrective and laxative.
Because of the expensiveness of
lumber, most farmers in the West live
in houses that are small, close and
covered, that cannot be properly ven
tilated. In these the temperature is
too often kept up into the nineties by
soft-coal stove, which with the best
of draughts, emits gases.
| Foul air, improper ventilation, coal
gases, together with the sudden
change and exposure of lungs and
throat to zero weather, or worse, in a
moment, is the source to no end OF
throat and bronchial trouble. A free
regular and constant use of honey is
probably the best medicine for throat
troubles there is, and its regular use
would be largely corrective here. II
! is always best to take our medicine
| and food together.-Iowa Homestead