Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1881 — Oar Breakfast. [ARTICLE]

Oar Breakfast.

The American’s bill of fare is varied but little: beefsteak, fried or baked potatoes, griddle cakes with syrup, or hot muffins and biscuit, are the articles he sighs for and will have, despite the threatenings of dyspepsia. Across the water they shudder at the American breakfast, while they discuss their chocolate, delicate rolls, soft-boiled eggs and fruit, with appetite. To those accustomed to more hearty food, it seems at first as if it would be impossible to accomplish the work of half upon a breaklast of rolls, eggs and chocolate, yet after one has become accustomed to the habit it ia difficult to partake of a more substantial meal early fast of jrtioCDlate, rolls—fresh baked, but ndf bafe*oatmeal, eggs and fruit, isfitlbf T king. It is varied, nutritious, delicate and easy to digest, and contains nothing fried. If we could only banish the sauce pan’s ooatents from our breakfast-table, and bring up our children equally to dread satan, and than that which is fried I How many little ones in this free land, thelratop,

greasy potatoes, and hot fried pork or beefsteak, enter the schoolroom to fall into all kinds of ‘ trouble, their brains disorganized by ttm indigestible food they have catena. If we should feed them upon milk, oatmeal, and ■uoh - -.nourishing things in the morning, with plenty of rare, broiled beefsteak at noon, they might not develop immediately into, little angttbi.-fArhaps, hut they certainly would nave rosier cheeks and brighter minds." iTbe question of what one shall eat is inexhaustible, however, and every one baa a different opinion concerning it. It is the business of a housewife to know something of the subject from a chemical standpoint, and to regulate the dinners of her family so that they may not only be palatable but healthful. Pies, puddings, rich pastry of all kinds, In fact, should always be tabooed In a family where there are children, but after these are denied a diet may be prescribed which is at once wholesome and appetizing. There is a great deal In the manner of preparing food to render it harmless. For instance, the oyster, either boiled, stewed or raw, is the most easily digested of edibles; hut fried, it stands revealed as the father of nightmares. Yet, such is the contrariness of human nature, most people prefer them fried! Few of us can resist a dish of crisp, smoking oysters thus prepared even at breakfast time, though it be much more virtuous to eat a buttered roll. An unruly appetite leads us into all manner of trouble. ,