Muffins And Pancakes

Many people who find pancakes indigestible will do well to observe the time when they are most agreeable. If they are made with eggs, cream, and water, or with rich milk, and properly prepared and combined with suitable articles, they are generally agreeable to the most sensitive stomach.

People of sedentary habits, or those who do brain work mainly, should not eat pancakes or muffins for breakfast.

All ingredients, as well as the vessel, should be cold. The batter should also be made in a cold place or out of doors. The oven, the baking pans and the oil in which the cakes are baked, should be as hot as possible.

Bread

Bread made from white flour and yeast is the staff of death. Few people realize that if they wish to use white bread as a food the proper amount of minerals, fats and nitrogen must be added, in order to make it a perfect food. Yeast bread, if eaten with jams and jellies in large quantities between meals, is health destroying and dwarfs the body. It is also unwise to eat white bread in combination with other starches, as rice, potatoes and soft puddings. The average individual who takes plenty of out-door exercise may get along well for years on such mixtures and suffer no inconvenience, but people with poor eliminating organs or chronic ailments, or those who do much indoor work, do well to use yeast bread in moderation, especially if prepared from white flour.

Baked and boiled cereals are more nutritious than bread. In the fermenting process which takes place in rising bread, val-rable substances such as lime and salts are lost. It is rendered more acid, and therefore unfit as a food for people with weak stomachs. If yeast bread is combined with foods which render the fluids of the stomach alkaline, it is less harmful.

Soups

Many American housekeepers do not know how to prepare soups and do not like them. The fact that people of many nations in the old world, with smaller incomes than the average American working man, use soups daily, once or twice, and are far superior in physical strength and endurance to the latter, who lives mainly on beefsteak, white bread, potatoes, sugar, tea and coffee, should convince every one that nutritious soups are an important article of diet. Close study and persistent effort will enable every homekeeper with small means to learn how to prepare a soup that is palatable and nutritious. The daily use of white bread and butter is expensive. Besides it produces diseases, imperfect bodies and premature old age.

All who are in the habit of eating more than their systems require and especially those who indulge in large amounts of bread at dinner, would do well to begin their meal with a soup. Legume and cream soups will furnish a satisfactory meal by themselves. For combinations, see "Menus."