The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1915-09-17

some OF Cnem may De toasted, OJners
made into bread pudding, and 9TH
ers baked in the oven and eaten like
biscuits. Before going farther it
may be well to consider the ques-
tion whether want of thrift is not
shown in regard to the quality, as
we'll as the quantity, of bread. The
use Of white bread has become more
land more common, and, alas! the de-
cay of teeth is doing SO likewise, at
such a rate as to become national
danger. 1t is impossible to say with
certainty that decay in teeth is due
to the use of white bread, but am
inclined to think SO. Unless fowls
are provided with the material for a
i lshell, by giving them lime in some
form, they lay eggs without shells.
Some years ago / was consulted
about the rapid decay of wet
nurses teeth while she was sucking.
1t occurred to me that the lime salts
were being drained from her body
! by the milk she was giving to her
baby. I gave her phosphate of lime,
and the decay ceased at once. The
objection to there being any connec-
tion between decay of teeth and
want of lime salts in white bread at
once arises that there is plenty of
lime in other kinds of food and too
much in hard water. But the chem
istry of the cereals is complex
thing, and people fed on decorti-
beri beri, and are cured by giving
them the outer part of the rice
grains, in which substances called
vitamines are contained. In like
manner, if people were to return to
wholemeal bread, instead of white
bread, l believe (though l may be
quite wrong in doing so) that a
great change for the better would
occur in their teeth.
III.
No butter should be wasted, any
portions remaining on plates should
be collected in a bowl, carefully
washed and again made up into
pats. A great deal of tea is wasted.
When as much tea as is wanted has
been drunk, enough unexhausted
tealeaves are left in the teapot to
make several cups more. Only
enough tea should be put into the
pot to supply the quantity needed,
and the waste is likely to be less
if the teapot is small, just big |
enough to serve and no more. An
earthenware teapot retains the heat |
better than metal one, and so
makes better tea. A common rule
of quantity in this country is a tea
spoonful Of tea for every person, and
one for the teapot. In Russia, where
great deal of tea is drunk, such a
rule would seem absurd. Some years
ago l was dining with professor in
Moscow, and tea was served after
dinner. Discussing the use of tea
in England and Russia, l asked my
hostess how much tea she used. She
replied 81 am extravagant in tea.
| have twelve guests, and l used four
teaspoonfuls of tea, but most of my
friends would only have used one"
In order to taste such tea it must
be drunk without milk or sugar,
which woud mask the favour. Sugar
is most valuable food, and if any
should remain undissolved at the bot
tom of the cup it should not be
washed out, but left to sweeten the
next cup or swallowed, despite the c
warning of the financier which l ,
have already quoted. If milk is ;
clean, and is put into carefully scald- :
keep sweet for many hours, but
minute trace of sour milk in any of
,he receptacles will turn it sour in !
short time. If fresh supply is got :
only once day, it is best, especially r
n warm weather, to boil it at once. ;.
IN large establishments where steam
S available a better plan is to pass -
| current of steam through the milk -
n pail for twenty minutes. Pre- =
ervatives added to milk are most
They prevent the h
'acillus which forms Tactic acid u
rom acting, so that they hinder the
curing of milk, but they do not de- +,
troy other bacil1i, which set up a II
lind of putrefaction, and make the Il
nilk dangerous. When soured by VI
he proper bacillus, milk is not in 4
ured as food, but, on the con- h
rary, becomes healthgiving as well :,
S pleasant beverage. Scraps of 9,
heat and bones should be collected -
a an earthenware Jar, which can be a,
calded out frequently, so as to keep
absolutely clean, for the smallest
ortion of tainted meat will start
utrefaction in the other pieces. N
remnants of meat and all that can
e cut off the bones may be minced W
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