Little Mistakes.

Otago Witness, Issue 2894, 25 August 1909, Page 87

Little Mistakes.

There are co many little errors in regarv£ to eating aid Other mittens pertaining ta health which we fell into and continue so long that we come to regard them as ■natural, until Nature tiires of the habit andputs a stop to it. One of these is the custom of high -tea, or meat tea. This has become a standing rule in many a house. To have the teapot and any land of meat on Hie table at the same time is a. mistake ; the tea hardens the meat, and makes it much l«ss easy of digestion, as can reedilv be understood when it seem that thfc tannin in the. .tea is somewhat of the same as that which is used in tanning leather': the tea makes oUr meat leathery. The one chsh or che other, but not the dish of tea and the dish of meat together. Then there. 'It j.JlO^lO about "*">« «°ld "«* ««*■ the difficulty in getting cooks to see that by boiling the meat up or by making ife very hot in any way you render it hard; what is needed is just to thoroughly wawn, it, preferably in gravy. "Green vegetables should never be twice cooked, as thus their beoome most undesirable food. Better throw away the cabbage left over than' cook it again. Haste in eating is bad, and! so is haste after eating. If you ©annoC afford enough lime for your mid-day meal and a nice rest afterwards, then take something light fcben, and leave the snfestan^af meal until serves. A quick lunch, if it be a meal, and a quick dinner spell indigestion. The food thus taken does not give full -value, and is attended by something perhaps which you had much bettes be without.