Wholesome fare : a sanitary cook-book, containing the laws of food and the practice of cookery, and embodying the best British and continental receipts ; with hints and useful suggestions for the sedentary, the sick, and the convalescent / by Dr. & Mrs. Delamere.

  • Delamere, Edmund S.
Date:
1878
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Credit: Wholesome fare : a sanitary cook-book, containing the laws of food and the practice of cookery, and embodying the best British and continental receipts ; with hints and useful suggestions for the sedentary, the sick, and the convalescent / by Dr. & Mrs. Delamere. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    retirement, and restoration to health is the paramount object. With regard to garlic taken in society: There exists a story (it is not new) of a slap on the face having been given at a convivial meeting; when, to avoid serious consequences, some one had tho presence of mind to think of passing it on all round; so that, every body having received a slap—in joke—nobody could reason- ably take offence. The same is the case with garlic. If administered to one of a company—even if that company consists of no more than two—it must be administered to all. As the bride said, when asked if she would take seasoning with her duck, 11 Well, dear Johnny, I hardly know. If you do, I do; if you don’t, I don’t.” But garlic is such a matter of use, that persons accustomed to it eat it raw with the same satisfaction as they would munch a radish. Garlic has a stimulating effect on the stomach, owing to a very volatile acrid principle, which is soluble in water. Itself contains but little nutritive matter, but aids the digestion of mucilaginous and gelatinous dishes —calfs head, sheeps’ trotters, cow-heel, and the like. Its general effects are a certain excitement of the ex- halant organs, caused by the sharp stimulus given to the stomach, perhaps also by the passage into the blood of its volatile principle, which perfumes with its odour not only the mouth, but the perspiration, &c. Garlic is in repute as a preservative against in- fectious disease and unwholesome miasms; which is wrong, if attributed to any special virtue or power