The poisons in our food, or, Guide to health / by a physician.

Date:
1855
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Credit: The poisons in our food, or, Guide to health / by a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the whole boiled for a few minutes, to effect the solution of the arrowroot. This compound, when perfectly cold, is mixed up with the cream. From 220 to 280 grains (or three teaspoonfuls) of arrowroot are added to one pint of milk, and one part of this solution is mixed with three of cream. The fraud may be detected by adding to a tea- spoonful of the so-called cream, a few drops of the tincture of iodine, which instantly produces with it a dark blue or purple color. Genuine cream acquires by this test a faint yellow tinge. _ I will speak again on this subject, when considering milk and ice-cream. 5. Coffee. Although coffee is not so often an article in which we are cheated, from the fact that many persons roast and grind their coffee, still, there is no doubt that a majority of the families in cities- and small towns prefer buying their coffee ready ground to save trouble, not thinking that the grocer or the manufacturer of coffee would put an article of coffee on them that was not good. The fraud practised in grinding coffee is, that they put with it such things as peas, beans, saw- dust and old coffee-grounds. To prove to the reader the degree of importance attached to this one article in Europe, I will here give an extract from a law now in force in Great Britain on the subject. Act: If any burnt, scorched, or roasted peas, beans, or other grain, or vegetable substance, prepared or manufactured for the purpose of being in imitation of, or alleged or