Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six

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Juliet Corson. Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six

Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six

Table of Contents

PREFACE

THE REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION

PREFACE

DAILY BILLS OF FARE FOR ONE WEEK

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

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Juliet Corson

Published by Good Press, 2019

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All animal flesh is composed of albumen, fibrin, and gelatin, in the proportion of about one fifth of its weight; the balance of its substance is made up of the juice, which consists of water, and those soluble salts and phosphates which are absolutely necessary for the maintenance of health. It is this juice which is extracted from beef in the process of making beef tea; and it is the lack of it in salted meats that makes them such an injurious diet when eaten for any length of time to the exclusion of other food.

The flesh of young animals is less nutritious, and less easily masticated than that of full grown animals, on account of its looser texture. Beef, which has firmer and larger fibres than mutton, is harder to digest on that account, but it contains an excess of strengthening elements that is not approached by any meat, save that of the leg of pork.

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