Eating for Strength: Or, Food and Diet in Their Relation to Health and Work, Together with Several Hundred Recipes for Wholesome Foods and Drinks

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Physical Culture Publishing Company, 1888 - 246 páginas
 

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Página 120 - As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Página 120 - Labiatae, or mints, were introduced only a short time previous to the appearance of man on the globe. It appears that apples made a part of the food of that unknown primitive people whose traces have lately been found at the bottom of the Swiss lakes, supposed to be older than the foundation of Rome, so old that they had no metallic implements.
Página 123 - The house-dog on his paws outspread Laid to the fire his drowsy head, The cat's dark silhouette on the wall A couchant tiger's seemed to fall; And, for the winter fireside meet, Between the andirons...
Página 211 - TO MAKE A HEN'S NEST. GET five small eggs, make a hole at one end, and empty the shells — fill them with blanc mange: when stiff and cold, take off the shells, pare the yellow rind very thin from six lemons, boil them in water till tender, then cut them in thin strips to resemble straw, and preserve them with sugar; fill a small deep dish half full of nice jelly — when it is set, put the straw on in form of a nest, and lay the eggs in it.
Página 42 - ... arranged under the heads of — Proteids. Amyloids. Fats. Minerals. Such a body would lose in 24 hours — of water, about 40,000 grains, or 6 Ibs. ; of other matters about 14,500 grains, or over 2 Ibs. ; among which of carbon 4,000 grains ; of nitrogen 300 grains ; of mineral matters 400 grains ; and would part, per diem, with as much heat as would raise 8,700 Ibs.
Página 122 - You are company, you redcheeked spitz, or you salmon-fleshed greening ! I toy with you ; press your face to mine, toss you in the air, roll you on the ground, see you shine out where you lie amid the moss and dry leaves and sticks. You are so alive ! You glow like a ruddy flower.
Página 187 - Cut half of a solid head of cabbage fine as for slaw. Have a deep spider on the fire and hot. Put in your cabbage, pour quickly over it a pint of boiling water, cover close, and cook for ten minutes ; then pour off the water that remains, and add half a pint of rich milk. When the milk boils up stir in a tea-spoonful of flour moistened with a little cream or milk, a sprinkle of salt, and cook the flour a minute, then dish up.
Página 214 - Rub some fine sugar on the lemons to attract the essence, and put it into a China bowl, into which squeeze the juice of the lemons. To it add one pound and a half of fine sugar, then put the water to the above, and three quarts of milk...
Página 173 - ... pan and place it in a warm place to rise, and let it remain for twelve hours at least ; form it into rather long-shaped loaves and bake in a quick oven. Apple and RiCC.
Página 120 - It belongs to him, and he may steal it if it cannot be had in any other way. His own juicy flesh craves the juicy flesh of the apple. Sap draws sap. His fruit-eating has little reference to the state of his appetite. Whether he be full of meat or empty of meat, he wants the apple just the same. Before...

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