The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-04-30
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Probably no ailment with which
the human family is afflicted is
more common than Indigestion.
The prime cause of Indigestion is
poorly cooked food. Fried food
should be avoided, as a large
amount of grease penetrates
through every particle of the food
if fried any length of time. Many
people will take piece of steak
and fry it until it becomes thor.
oughly saturated with fat, and all
the juices of the steak are entire
ly destroyed. When it is placed
upon the table, ready to serve,
the steak Is about as easy to di.
gest as piece of leather and
about as nutritious. If steak is
fried at all, the skillet should be
made very hot, a small piece of
butter put III, then the steak
placed in the skillet and allowed
to remain long enough to brown
through one.fourth of the meat.
Then turn it over on the other
side and do like wise. Steak to
be nutritious should be red when
cut open.
A great deal of the meat that is
baked or roasted is cooked too
much, which destroys the juices,
making the meat iudigcstible.- -
Meat in roasting loses about
twenty five per cent. fits weight
while If steamed 1t will not lose
any of its weight or nutrition.
All cereals can be cooked by
steam with one-fourth the labor
that it takes to cook them in any
other way, as they need no watch
ing or stirring.
All vegetables cooked by steam
are far more palatable, nutritious
and more easily digested than
when cooked in any other way.
Puddings, fruit cake, brown
bread, and a score of other things
have a much better flavor If cook
ed by steam, and are much more
easily digested than they are
when cooked in hot oven. Moth
ing should be boiled, as boiling
takes the life out of any kind
of food, with the exception of
stews, when the liquid part
as well as the solid part of the
food is intended to be eaten. Po.
tatoes should never be boiled.
For most people baked potatoes
are more palatable than any 9th
ers, if eaten just as soon as cook.
ed. They are worthless if allow
ed to stand any length of time
Steamed potatoes are very delic-
ious, and much better to keep, If
left over from one meal TO another
than potatoes that are boiled or
baked.
Old and tough fowl can be cook
ed by steam and made as tender
as a chicken.
Poorly cooked food, and too
much of it is enough to give any
one indigestion. AS a rule, people
eat too much. A large per cent.
of food is eaten simply because it
tastes good, and not because the
system demands it. In almost
all the countries of Europe heavy
breakfasts are unknown. A cup
of coffee and a bun constitute the
breakfast, and the people are all
the better for maintaining this
custom.
1t matters not how much you
are paying a day or week at ho.
tel for board, if you should order
even an egg with your morning
lunch you will be charged for it
in your bill as extra service.
Two heavy meals and one light
lunch are enough for an ordinary
person, especially one sedentary
habits. A great many people who
are constantly taking medicine
for dyspepsia, would be cured if
they would eat pr operly cooked
food, and only as much of it as the
system demands. We advise ev-
cry person to make it a point to
eat but two heavy meals and one
lunch day.
SOME SOUND SENSE.
Charles r. Flint, the great New