Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 151, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1910 — HINDU METHODS OF COOKING. [ARTICLE]

HINDU METHODS OF COOKING.

Said to Save Nutriment In Vegetables That Americans Lose. In India It la literally a case of being a vegetarian or starving, for the Hindus of Hindustan, taking them almost as a whole, are enjoined by their religion to abstain from eating meat. They are not allowed even to open the shell of an egg because by so doing they would destroy the life within It. Thus they are compelled to subsist on a vegetarian diet or go hungry. But if the cooks In India were to prepare their vegetables for the table as do the women of America, writes Saint Nihal Singh in The Nautilus, It is certain that the Hindus would be meat eaters—lt would be Impossible for them to live on a vegetable diet. This for an essential reason., The American cook bolls all the flavor as well as the vitality out of the vegetables and throws It away. The Occidental cook declares this operation Is necessary, as the flavor of the vegetable is too strong and pronounced If the water Is not drained away from 4 L Be that as it may the result is that the food has lost much of Its nutriment and Is useless td build up or sustain the body. Moreover, the boiling process renders the dish more or less Insipid in flavor. The East Indian cook works on a directly opposite principle. The woman of India Is taught that the food must be cooked la Its own steam, or with Just enough water to generate steam to cook It, and every drop of moisture must be evaporated before the food Is served unless it Is to be eaten with a gravy or shorba, in which case a small quantity of liquid is allowed to remain on It But as a usual thing not a drop of watei; Is drained away. This would be looked upon as positively sacrlllgfouS and wasteful .by the East Indians. The American throws away as useless every day what would keep an East Indian family from starvation. This fact was demonstrated when during a siege the Indian soldiers requested that the water ft which the rice was cooked alone should be Issued to them, while the rice Itself might be served to the English soldiers. This was done, and the native sepoys apparently wer» as well fed as their white brothers.

A girl'g Idea of modesty is to decide that only |1 a ticket is enough to charge the neighbors to hear her sing. The smaller the town, the more women have to eat at their