The Household.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1003, 18 February 1882, Page 1 (Supplement)

The Household.

■','•'' ';' !'lilll'4iA_iJii. : :: ■'''! '■•:<'• ■•'■"' ■,. cakens ; ajgreat,fayprite;.in' ■France.//, Sift a pound of .the best .flour,: p.n t. it iii. a;]ipap,on theVpaatry.-boiurfl; make a hole' inthe middle, put into, it.a : pincli,of salt and! one. of, s.ifted sugar, three-quarters,of a, pound of butter,' and ; a gill,of. water, ! ; I{!ucad thp ingredients together,' and when they begin to mix .sprinkle. .over.-,by.degrces half.a ; gili of Water, continuing ,tokneadwiththepajmof thp hand, and. when is, perfectly smooth,.make: it into a.ball.and'let it He for anliour, :At,the,end of {this time rail out.the paste to thickness of half an inch,,. Mark the edges, as for Scotch shortbread, ,put,the pake on a.ibaking-sheet, brush over the.top.with yoke 'of ,ecg,'.,and score it in ,the fprm of | diamonds, -fj'ako' in'.quiok.qyenior half!an hour, or until the, galette is, elastic on pressure ofjthehnger,, : ..■ j'; : .;' : .;.:i.., : -, ; .j.: ;:.,■; Mundigoes, No. 2.—Somebody asks. ; me.tp ropeat tin's here dish as itwas printed once,, but I,don!t,remoinberhow Iputiitithen, Anyhow, it's inade- l out.of what|s left oyer from Sunday, and hence, its, name, .when you eats .it. on a,Monday, and it aint .banyan neither. .Say you have.a pound or, mpreof gold beef, and the. bones; out the beef in gppd .thick, slices, and make a grayy., with, the bones,;: plioo some-,cold-raw,,bacon ever so thin; take ; an,onion, only. one,,and;chop,it fine; ; haye ,som.p,.parsiey ,and a little curry ppwder, ; and;a,little red pepper and some poupded hard.taoki; you can have all of them but parsoly on.board ship; imake.a beginning with.th.O; pork at the bottom of the bakingtin, and, put.a sprinkle of onion,and curry -powder, pepper and; bread crumbs, in that, then .your,.bits of meat,, and lay on your courses, pork and beef,; until. you get. ; on a level witli-tho pan, SuThen dust over the.top with your biscuits crumbs, aud gravy over that, and bake, not too Tapidj, for a full hour., ,An old man used to make, me ■put a glass, of sliorry.oyoy it, but anEnglisliman what I sailed wjth used : to liaye pie pour j a tumbler of stout pver.jt just as ; it, went into | theoven,andit.was.gpod.:,-!;:,-, ;„.j;,-.„...... ; ; OysterPie.—To prepare .oyster, pie. accprd-: ing. to the best authorities, a sufficient number i ofjat, medium-sized pysters.mustifirst.be ob-! tained. There': i?,a diyiswu.ofopjuion'fttthis; •point upon the, question whether! the. hard; .part, of. the oyster, should be separated and! .thrown away, but itho ;weiglit of, authority, seemsto be in favor pf ; sp doiug. -The oysters; are then taken and ,tboroui;h|y;,dr.ained in; order,to'get.them as dry as.ppssible. .-,,Theyj are thou,rolled;,in finely^poiydered,cracker; dust, which has ; been sifted through a,flop! sieve. Very light puff-paste having been pre- j pared, tho dish-which should be an earthen;

one and rather deep-is lined with the paste on the sides, the cook being careful not to, put any paste on the bottom. Into this] oysters arc poured, and on top of them, in' pieces about the size' of Alberts,! parsley,i buttery made by mixing very finely (Jut parsley with fresh butter and adding thereto; a small pinch of mace, : shouldbeput. The whole thing is covered with thepasto for. the. crust, : rolled'thin, and'holes are cut to lot the steam out. The amount of the butter!ia one tablcsp'oonfttlto'a quart of oysters, the pie is thenready ■fprbaking.which should be done iu ; a moderately quick oven, and should not last over 40 minutes,'.'' ' ''■ '

WHOLESOME FOOD. ■•■ -| The Issue. Between White 'and Brown ' ■ '■.''■'';■'' " BbeacV; • : The earliest agitator in the matter, says a writer in. &%■ Nineteenth Century, observed two years ago, when travelling in Sicily, that the laboring olasses there live healthily and work well upon, a vegetable diet, the. st&plo article of which is bread made of well-ground wheat-meal.' ,Nor : are the Sicilians by any means tho only people so supported, "The Hindoos of the North-western Provinces can walk;so or Gftmilesa day with no other food than 'chapattjeSi'.-made of. the whole 'mealj with; a, little, ghee,; or ; Galam .butter," Turkish' and Arab porters .'capable of carrying burde'nsjof; from 400'. to GOO'pounds live on bread ;only, with the occasional'addition of fruit and .vegetables.; The Spartans .and . Epmans' of old time lived their, vigorous, lives .'.on-'bread, made of wheaten meal, - In. northern,' as-well as southern climates, we' ftod th'osame, thing,,. In 'Russia, Sweden', Scotland and elsewhere, the poor live' chiefly on bread, always, made from some whole mealwheat, oats orryo—and the peasantry, of whatever climate, so'fed,.' always, compare favorably with our South Englishpoor, who, iii condition's of indigence'precluding .them from obtaining sufficient meat food, starve, if not to death, at lea'st.into sickliness, oh the . white bread it is.our modern, English habit to prefeiv',„White brpacl. alone will' not sup': port animal; life, : Bread made of the whole grain sll,',' The experiment has been tried in Fraiice.by Magendie,,, Bogs'were the subjects ol the trial, and oyery care was taken tp. equalise,all the,bthef portion the .quantity of 'food given 'in 'each case to the. weight, bf, the animal, experiine'nted upon and.so forth. Tho result was sufficiently, marked, 'At the end of 40 dayi I the.-dogs,,fed; solely ou white bread.died; The dogs, fed on ,made : of the whole , grain, remained Vigorous, healthy,' and well; nourished,', ,W|hethor'; an! 'originally', healthy humanbeing, if.'M,solely bn.white,'bread | for 40 days, would likewise die" at the end of

that ( time,.,-r«!niainß,.;of ; ..opurse,; j a question. The .tenacity of Ufe. pxhihite4; byr dogs ; \vill not pyidently, bearppmparispii witb that of,-the. scarcely yet,-fqrgptfen ; won'der^Pr > ,-Tanner,,,,;^ y .is q ;rt, l by l ;any means; asserted that,.auy,giyori. v manor.'any given child would cortainly remain iu'.yigpfed. .solely; on wheat-meal, bread.', Not a single piece of strong evidence has bee'n.prpcured, however, to.shpwthat,he.^ouldnot; andin.tho onlycase.in,whieh whple r meal .bread; has i been itried, with ,or. ,pn any ponsiderable. scale .wit, in gapls-rfaots gp.to. show.suehbrqadto .bo an'exeellent.and Wholesome substitute for more costly forms qf.nutritious j fobd,,,. ■"],'„.

MLDRM; ;^ ;iTho vicissitudes necessarily.incidPntito.an outdoor and primitivemode or.life are never -the first causes of any -disease,:! though they may sometimes betray! its; presenob.... i Bronchitis,' nowadays!perhaps thojinost frequent of all infantile diseases, makes, no exception to .this rule; a draft of may: reveal ■the latent progress of. the,- disorder, but its cause,is! long, confinement-in a .vitiated and over-heated., atmosphere,]'and i'its proper remedy ventilatjon!and:a;mild,/phlegm-loos-ening (sacciiariiie)* diet, warm sweetjmilk, sweetoatmealporridgeor honey-water,. Select anairy 'bed-room, and do not be.afraid; : to open tho windows, ..Among the ohildren of tho Indian tribes; .who. ;brave in open', tents the terrible winters of the Hudson,jßay territory, bronchitis,; croup and.diphtheria are wholly unknown; .iandlwhat- we .call .■'.'. taking cold" might oftenibeimore correctly described as taking,hot; glowing.stoyes,.and even open- fires, ; in a night. nursery,, greatly aggravate the pernicious effects of an impure atmosphere.: The firstiparoxyftmsi of ;;'croup can.be -promptly:--relieved;,by ; jvery,.simple remediosi fresh air and'a rapid forward and back movement of tho arms,,,combined, ju urgent oases, .with the application,of ,a'.Heshbrush (orpiece of flannel)totheneclcand,the upperpart.of the chest;! Paregorio;and, poppysyrup .stop' the cough by -.lethargizing.;tho irritability, and thus preventing the;disoharge of the phlegm till .its accumulation produces a second and far more, dangerpps" paroxysm, these !secohd attacks' of'' croiip .'(after the administration', of', paliatiyes) aregeher'aily the fatal ones,' "VTlien the.ohilil' let him beware of stimiilatingfciod. and oyer.heated rooms... Dp ; not. give aperient n\edi-cihes.;",',.costiveness,'['as.j.'an,[after-effect.' of; pleuritic'affectio'n's, sll' soon'yield 'to'fresh: air aud a vegetable diet; ,''','""■ j- 1 "'•"":' . •). .: ■ °.;.: 1..,',- ■ /■;/ Oi -i -: I',. •/; •: i-:,-.;