Healthful Cookery
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that it results in injury to digestion, and in discouragement to all
concerned in the attempt. You profess to be health reformers, and for
this very reason you should become good cooks. Those who can avail
themselves of the advantages of properly conducted hygienic cooking
schools, will find it a great benefit, both in their own practice and in
teaching others.—[
Christian Temperance and Bible Hygiene, 119
]
Counsels on Health, 450, 451, 1890
Changing From a Meat Diet
380. We advise you to change your habits of living; but while you
do this we caution you to move understandingly. I am acquainted with
families who have changed from a meat diet to one that is impover-
ished. Their food is so poorly prepared that the stomach loathes it,
and such have told me that the health reform did not agree with them;
that they were decreasing in physical strength. Here is one reason
why some have not been successful in their efforts to simplify their
food. They have a poverty-stricken diet. Food is prepared without
painstaking and there is a continual sameness. There should not be
many kinds at any one meal, but all meals should not be composed
of the same kinds of food without variation. Food should be prepared
with simplicity, yet with a nicety which will invite the appetite. You
should keep grease out of your food. It defiles any preparation of food
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you may make. Eat largely of fruits and vegetables.—
Testimonies for
the Church 2:63, 1868
381. The proper cooking of food is a most important accomplish-
ment. Especially where meat is not made a principal article of food is
good cooking an essential requirement. Something must be prepared
to take the place of meat, and these substitutes for meat must be well
prepared, so that meat will not be desired.—
Letter 60a, 1896
382. It is the positive duty of physicians to educate, educate,
educate, by pen and voice, all who have the responsibility of preparing
food for the table.—
Letter 73a, 1896
383. We need persons who will educate themselves to cook health-
fully. Many know how to cook meats and vegetables in different
forms, who yet do not understand how to prepare simple and appetiz-
ing dishes.—
The Youth’s Instructor, May 31, 1894
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Tasteless Dishes—324, 327
]