Boston school kitchen text-book : lessons in cooking for the use of classes in public and industrial schools / by Mrs. D.A. Lincoln.

  • Lincoln, Mary J. (Mary Johnson), 1844-1921.
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Boston school kitchen text-book : lessons in cooking for the use of classes in public and industrial schools / by Mrs. D.A. Lincoln. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    NUTRITIOUS AND INNUTRITIOUS FOODS, AND THE PROPER PROPORTIONS OF FOOD. Nutritious foods are those which contain substances that can be digested, absorbed into the blood, and as- similated or made a part of our bodies, and so promote growth and supply the waste. Nutritious foods are nourishing or stimulating. Nourishing foods are those that supply all the nutri- tion that the body needs, and develop perfectly every animal function, but do not increase the strength and rapidity of organic actions beyond the point of full nutrition. Bread, vegetables, fruits, grains, sugar, salt, and water are nourishing foods. Stimidating foods. All food that nourishes the body is in one sense stimulating, as it gives renewed energy to the bodily functions. But there are foods which impart more speed and energy to the organs than are necessary to perfect nutrition. Animal food is of this class. People who work, either with their brains or their muscles, wear out faster than people who only live and grow; and they need stimulating food to give the excess of energy that work demands, — not stimulants, but stimulating food. Stimulants are quite different. Stimulants. Condiments and alcoholic drinks are j classed as stimulants, because they impart no nourish- ment, do not make new tissue, nor help to remove the waste. They simply excite the bodily organs to greater activity for the time being, as a whip spurs an animal to greater speed ; and the result is either greater weakness after the stimulating effect has passed, or a craving for these excitants that nothing else will satisfy. The