Man's best diet, and twenty year's trial of it / by W. Couchman.

  • Couchman, W. (William)
Date:
[1873?]
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Credit: Man's best diet, and twenty year's trial of it / by W. Couchman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [This mode of dressing eggs secures that the white and the yolk shall be perfectly mixed. The white, which is so very nutritious, is insipid and unpalatable when the egg is simply boiled, fried, or poached. ] 11. Baked Potatoes with Sage and Onion.—Peel as many potatoes as you require ; put them in a pie dish, and a good sized onion, with half a tea-spoonful of dried sage, two ounces of butter, and enough water to cover the bottom of the dish. Season with salt and pepper. 12. Uneermented Bread.—Mix whole wheat meal with boiling water to the consistency of dough. Roll it into cakes about half-an-inch thick ; bake in the oven or over the fire. A small portion of either Indian, rye, or oatmeal, mixed with the wheat meal, makes an agreeable change from wheaten only. If wheat meal cannot be obtained, white flour mixed with not more than a third of good bran may be substituted. Avoid using too much water, baking too hard, rolling too much (lest the cakes be heavy), or making too thick. Cut open and eaten warm, with stewed fruit, syrup, honey, or butter, these cakes make an excellent meal for farmer or philosopher. Boiled Rice.—Rice boiled is a good variation from bread, and can be very ad¬ vantageously used, especially for invalids, with any kind of fruit in season stewed. Corn Flour.—This is very nutritious, and especially nice for children. It can be made in different ways, and when wanted, by being placed in moulds, of various shapes, and, if preferred, it can be made in many colours. Instructions are given upon each packet, which can be hrM at any Grocer. It may be eaten with fruits in season, stewed, or preserved fruit can be used in winter. Plum Pudding.—Half-a-pound of flour, half-a-pound of currants, half-a-pound of grated carrots, half-a-pound of grated potatoes, quartern pound of butter, and two ounce of sugar. Mix all together, adding a little salt, and any approved seasoning. Boil in buttered basin an hour-and-a-half, and serve with sweet sauce. ■—Penny Vegetarian Cookery. Stewed Fruit.—Nothing is nicer, more economical, or a better preservative to health eaten to any meal than stewed rhubarb, apples, gooseberries, or any other fruit in season, taken with brown bread, and as shown above, brown bread con¬ tains five per cent, per 100 pounds more of nutrition than butcher’s meat. Why spend Is. for that which is much more healthy for 2d. ? THE Dietetic Reformer and Vegetarian Messenger, PRICE TWOPENCE MONTHLY; OR, POST FREE FOR HALF-A-CROWN YEARLY. Order from F. Pitman, London ; or send for Copy, with List of Publications of ^he Vegetarian Society, to the Secretary, 91, Oxford Street, Manchester. The Penny Vegetarian Cookery containing 73 recipes, can be had through any Bookseller, from F. Pitman, Paternoster Row, London, E.C., or from Mr Wm. CouchMan, 5 Lovain Row, Tynemouth, who will send copy free on receipt of Postage Stamp, W. CLARK & .SON, STEAM PRINTERS AND LITHOGRAPHE ^■S, DUNFERMLINE.
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