The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1901-01-14
DESSERTS FOR WINTER.
some Valuable suggestions and In-
formation for the House,
wife.


The desserts suitable for cold
weather are quite different from the
delicate, refreshing creams suitable
for summer. Syllabub and fresh fruits
are only suitable in winter when we
are living habitually in such an art-
icially-heated atmosphere that we ex-
perience no touch of the icy chill OF
winter. As rule, our houses and
places Of public meeting are all over
heated. The rule of 20 degrees Fahren-
heit, given for the room of an invalid,
is too high for a crowded church or
assembly room, yet II is not an un-
common thing to find such rooms
heated much beyond this limit. The
result Of this and the habitual over
heating of the houses that we live in
isthat we feel languorous and weak in
winter, when we should feel strong,
and have not appetite or vigor to d.
gest the food which we need to pro-
tect us from the cold of winter. The
best cure for that feeling of lassitude
that so often overcomes us in winter,
when we have been shut in for some
time in a warm house, is a vigorous
walk in the open air. 1t is very i'm
portant, however, that in such a case
we protect ourselves with abundant
wrappings from the change. 1t is a
less hazardous thing first to change
the overheated air of the inside of the
house and become gradually accus-
toned to fresh, pure air of 6s degrees
before going directly into the outside
air. 1t is natural for healthy people
to feel an appetite for rich food in
winter, and they should try to cult.
vate an appetite for such food by ex-
ercise in the cold outdoors, says the
New York Tribune.
Rich suet pudding, well spiced, so as
to assist the digestion, and filed with
"plums" or preserved raisins and cur
rants, is good winter dessert. Even |
mince pies-rich in meats, spices and |
fats--as well as such preserved fruits
as currants, raisins and citron, are
much better winter desserts than in
sipid fruits, which load up the diges-
tion without furnishing fuel or build |
ng materials for the body. Delicate
persons can eat but a small amount |
If rich desserts like these, but per-
IONS of health, who can digest mod
rate portion of rich food containing
he materials proper for diet in the
old season, are better for it than for
,ating icy fruits, the suggestion of
which is sufficient to set the teeth on
.dge. Let the dessert for winter con-
ain nutriment and some fat. Even
,ur much abused American pie has
his to recommend it. 1t is a rich
winter food when it is properly made
f light pastry. 1t is very poor sum
ner dessert unless it is filed with
ruit, as it usually is, and the pastry
5 exceptionally light and thin. It
nay be that laboring people who need
nore foods that supply fuels to the
ody, even in summer, than people
Sho do not use their muscles so vigor-
usly need the fat used in pastry.
t should always be combined with
he -four in such manner as to be
ght and faky when made into crust.
'ruits and most vegetables contain
cry little food value, and are more
uitable in summer diet for this rea-
on. Indigestion may arise from over :
,ading the stomach with a mass OF
sod which has no nutritive value or
! so poor in nutrition that it is
train to the digestive powers to dis
ose Of it as well as from overrich
'od. vast amount of people who
lffer from Indigestion suffer because
ley are trying to obtain nutriment
efficient for the needs of the body
'om grains and fruits that are poor
/ all nutritious qualities and lacking
lme necessary to health. Our an
sstors were generally healthy, rud-
Y people, because they ate wisely
nd well, and did not allow themselves
, be influenced by theorists in food,
no are not apparently acquainted
it'll the needs of the body or the
,nstituent parts of the foods so often
commended A great many people
.e starving themselves under the
ea that they are living hygienically
OId-Fashioned Cancer Cure.