The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1906-08-19

through an eight course dinner. Mos
of US feel that we could content cur.
selves on diet of fruit and liquids
but such a diet lacks sustaining quail
tiles
why not, then. adapt the diet Of
the tropics to the summer months
here?'' is the suggestion of man who
has spent many years near the equa-
tor.
fruit and vegetable menu is all
very we'll for men and women who
are not called upon to spend several
hours in the performance of some daily
occupation" he went on, but working
folks need some kind of animal food.
AT least one meal a day should con-
sist Of fish, meat or poultry. In the
tropics these three articles form an
important part of the daily menu. but
they are prepared in a different way
from the ones in vogue here and they
are accompanied by vegetables and
fruit which help to aliay the heating
properties attributed to meat diet.
Sliced cold meats daintily served
appetite of almost any one whose idea
of real meal is beefsteak or steam
ing roast. Then well cooked meats
such as lamb beef, or possibly veal.
combined with snowy fakes Of rice and
eaten with a curry sauce, provide plen-
ty of fuel FOR the human furnace and
keep the blood from becoming sluggish.
Most people who have not liked curry
before they lived in the tropics have
grown very fond of it on account of
the delicious fruit chutney served with
it. Mango chutney is especially good.
There is a we'll known West Indian
dish called SQUAD pie without so much
as the wing of a squad in it. 1t is
appetizing all the same. 1t is made
of layers of pork sliced thin, chopped
apples or cho chos, and onions, all
boiled with cloves and with lime juice
poured over 1t. The dish the pie is
baked in is lined with = rich and
fiaky pie crust and another crust is put
over the top after the SQUAD" has
been smothered in highly favored
gravy Onions, despised though they
be. are an unrivaled summer tonic.
.'Curried fish Is one of the mainstays of
the tropical meal, and salt fish and rice
done as we nave it down there will temp
an appetite when more elegant viands
fail to inspire q glimmer of interest. |
Odd as it may seem, soup forms sub |
stantiaI part of the all the year diet !
with us, and the hotter it is in the |
way of seasoning the better We like |
it. Pepper pot lives up to the tenn
perature of it's name, yet in spite of
that it is not heating, and after drink |
ing a plate of it one actually feels
cooler and braced up. I suppose it's
on the same principle that hot tea
tends to cool one off more than iced
tea does, iii the end.
ITO make pepper pot an earthen
bowl Is used and into this are put as
many quarts of cold water as required
with three tablespoonfuls of pure
casseripe to each quart. Then salt and |
a handful of bird peppers or, If these |
are not to be had, cayenne. Cooked |
meat of any kind cut into dice and |
two or three hard boiled eggs cut In
the same way are added and the whole
is allowed to simmer tor several hours.
This palatable and nutritious dish Is
always kept on hand in the Weii-reg-
ulated West Indian household and the
original stock is added to from day 10
day.
ITO take the place of meat there is
nothing more satisfactory than rice
the rice ever so little. and then the
two are put together and cooked with
a hit of pork, butter and pepper. An
entire dinner may be made of currled
chicken If it is served after the west
and East Indian mode. A little grated
fresh cocoanut, bit OF thinly-snceu
smoked salmon, gherk1ns, chutney anu
picked beet root give distinct mayor
and relish to it and take the place OF
vegetables and salad.
soThe banana is a most SATISFYING
fruit and the quantities now peihs
Skinned into this country show thas
i. is rapidly becoming very I'M
rortant article of diet In the ihorh
ing when You feel little bit seedy anu
rothing tempts your appetlte, Try
dish of thinly- SLICED bananas WIN M
inice squeezed over them and You Will
find that you soon begin 10 eaAe an
interest in things about you
.As a. vegetable bananas roasted IN
their skins for about half an hour. or
until the outside looks black, are pro-
delicious. When they are
baked they are split open, busted Win
nowdered sugar and then lime juice
over them. To make very
good imitation of strawberries ana
oreom bananas mashed to a pulp and :
rnixed with strawberry jam and cream
then served in a tall thin parfait glass;
win almost persuade you that the sea
son of fresh strawberries has returned.
s.Cocoaruts furnish another svou
meat and vegetable understuoy' W"
there is .Ricey Coco for instance ms
ia a popular dish in warm chiiia'es
and is so simple to prepare that II IL I
we're widely known there isn't DOUBT
hnt that it would be promoted to reg
ular position on the daily menu. a.
Iasst in summer Rice is first boiled
until it is soft yet with every kerneI
separate-Chinese style-then 10
added some cocoanut cream previously
prepared. a little nutmeg, some CHINA
mon. rose water and sugar me "hoie I
is so good it makes my mouth "a'ei ,
Just to think of it.
'.yUha+ stri,xes me as strange is that t
- o.,Ia bere have ever tasted l