New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-05
BLACK EYE FOR CEREALS.
SoT7c Queer Ingredients in Some Breakfast
Foods. Saws Miss Johnson.

Johnson's cooking demonstration. Speaking Of one
OF the most extensively advertised Of all breakfast
foods she salts:
There IL st---chn:a in it. That has been proved
by analysis: and think its manufacture is under
going temporary luH at present through the ef-
forts OF the Pure Food people don't suppose there
is enough strychnia in portion hurt any
body, but think If you going 10 take a regular
course Of that drug you would better do II under
G physicians direction
The hundreds OF women who packed the big hall
aghast this revelation And then Miss John
con proceeded TO on and give them more OF the
thing. Speaking OF another widely advertised
breakfast food. she said
~ put it in a tube IN a laboratory, with
properly prepared toast. and also with a nice,
soEgy greasy variety OF toast warranted TO be
indlgestibla The breakfast food the last OF
the three 10 digest"
I've heard II nothing but bread and molas-
res" said woman in the audience.
- shouldn't be surprised" said Miss Johnson.
y think I would believe anything OF that partio-
ula- compound after my experience with it. A
physician ordered me to mako my breakfast Of II
alone for n month when getting over an ILL
ness. had indigestion just as long as followed
his prescription. AZ soon as I went back 70 my
ordinary breakfasts my indigestion stopred
HARD TO DIGEST
There are two things that make cereals bad for
/ many people" she continued. "Ons is that they
| are easy food to bolt They slip down whole.
The other is that the quantity Of used with
/ them sets up a fermentation IN the intestnes,
where most the digestion Of cereals takes place,
II suppose you are all too old TO change II you
eat cereals YOU will eat sugar with them But you
can train your children to eat them without II
| children cannot eat cereals without sugar they
| would better not eat them at all"
| Miss Johnson's subject ''Brcakfasts." and
about this time most enticing odor OF coffee began
/ TO III the hall
| ''I am doing light housekeeping now" Eaid the
Instructor. and mako my coffee every morning
| OF my life IN a saucepan"
| This astounding assertion. contrasting so oddly
with the learned dissertations French coffee pots
20 which housewives ere treated. made a mild SEN
sation.
There are two secrets OF good coffee" said tho
instructor daintily picking salt Goldfish into pan
| The arst is to put in coffee enough The next
| .. 70 nut Il on in cold water. Not IN little cold
! water Aftervard filing up with hot That gives
n an uncooked taste because II doesn't blend. Put
! Il on IN al the water you are going to use and
let Il come slowly boil Ths reason Is that you
| vnnt to get all the flavor IN that coffee into tho
| wafer and this is the best wav 20 do II When IL
| bolts set It of the fro IN warm place
| las for quantity put IN Tablespoonful OF coffee
ana q cupful OF water 10 each person. ana ono
| extra Never use egg 20 settle coffee 1t BINDS
the coffee together that its strength cannot Do
| extracted. 1 Use eggshells IL have them Mandy
! Lava "a q very wonderful nttls island contin-
/ ued Miss Johnson ruminatively. Such niue Isl
| and and vet # supplies the whole civilized worl1
with cofree-kings on their thrones and tho people
! who trade at the corner grocery. Well welii Sooo
| south American coffee Is good no matter Vhat
name We buy It under.
GOLDFISH AU GRATIN
| Hero the cook passed around dish OF codISh su
| r-atin which was ambrosia and nectar. Hero Is
Miss Johnson's recipe
TEX Two CUPS 81 s md let stand three hours II
Is better change tho water once oulii n ,La =
cream sauce with two level tablespoontus OF Dut
ter two q -four one cup paS 81 Of finely
grated cheese mix carefully and wei WIN me H ,
with cheese and brown in q hot oven. ,,,, ~, ,5
This may be used as a uitS ,1 ,S S snnach chop
IL very fine and heat in very little sauce cream
he codssb and sprinkle with cheese as before
and serve
Miss Johnson made a somewhat similar dish OF
fine variety OF canned sausage oy picAHAs w
sausaRe into small pieces ana serving IN Nie
sauce like dried beef. She limited that llis We"
particularly delectable a cold winter ioiii''s
with griddle cakes. wheat or ouck"he31 81.
Don't think / recommending S''""'
OF sausage" said she but at this season OF uie
- 49, nv. many kinds OF sausage which may
| b., used for breakfast. either as a reAsh VI a.
main dish OF the meal Sausage no" '-lu sHI
| good sausage properly cooked Is NOT "a. ,
| soma breakfast dish a swapping c0'e mo- .r.
- 4. a. certainly one well liked by men, AHo
.r,au sa,saR.s may be covered with water ooheo
for a few minutes and then Drowned IA '--o o.a
| -rbera e no more delicate way OF cooAi''e =,
| than this for IL done properly inc esN0 80 "a,
'4iA" us opa will be well cooked. The dill
s.,,t FINDS OF dried sausages may be heAeeo ~
yartoua sauces or broiled and serNeu wa"
| .E,.os among them the expensive eggs., hut 4,
1880 g. something not frequently Soi,osts as
Is very digestible meat ana rsa Ponevcomb trips
ehlGkSn be seected and it may be cooked in CT
sauce la Creole or as Lyoin,aTel baked hnnan
dSie broiled oysters warmed-over aSI fI he 1ssd
mutton. veal, chicken or turkey ,on how they are
for for the true secret OF the who.e nnd an
that breakfast dishes TO oe ~ is hard thing
70 ger ger started or have things started 6ainty
eary cooked neal And the success OF gteSRii ifs
| depends much upon It's seF'ii" -
cooking.
..I,o Won air your dining room before breakfast!
asked Miss johnson. suddenly II not. S0u -.
,a,plv cannot enjoy your breakfast. eaten IN tlIs
| ,5tiated mir OF the night before You cannot eise'
| your food without oxygen. and oxygen Is JUS
| y1ecessarv as food to life and heaItn East -.
| ssDo YOU dust your dining room oelofe pIeaH 49,
| rs5snla ~ laughter around the room. l.,
Il Know" said the speaker. seriously ina s, ~
4o IN is Impossible to get everything done la
| ought to bs done. But we can at ie4se Aiio" w.
0es.s are In dust everywhere But il Is IN Ihe
aiming room that they get into our fooo ana oos
into our nt free from dust should nothing
| IN it 10 catch and conceal dust, sH nnSs and
| plain room, as devoid as possioie VI N
n .HHss Johnsons idea Of breakfast seems 70 Dc
something Between eaat h ana nince pie breakfast Of
ang America The climate. habit ana t asa
America es sbsfitute for latter she would haze
Something nourishing but light Sne dishes po-
nste sHs she would call halt the mao rage ~
CEREALS She would recoinhssi sb .,oud have eggs