SOME RECIPES CALLED FOR.
By L. A. S.
A correspondent writes us from Virginia, asking if we cannot tell him how to obtain some homemade substitutes for some of the foods manufactured in Battle Creek, which cost more than some people can afford to pay. He says:— “I notice with pleasure several recent articles, formulas, etc., in the REVIEW, calculated to encourage common folks in the practice of health reform. It seems to me that the objections to a diet of mush should be kept ever before our people. I find but few who are not still eating their grains in that form, and nearly all seem surprised that I do not consider oatmeal and grits an ideal diet. “There must be homemade substitutes for the more important high-priced sanitarium foods. It has been so stated at General Conference and other public gatherings of our people. The essential directions for making such substitutes have been published over and over in Good Health, we are told, but they have been overlooked by the most of us; so you will be doing real service to your readers if you can make it clear that one can be a reformer and yet not eat foods from Battle Creek. “We get peanuts here at from three to four and one-half cents per pound; corn, rice, wheat, etc., at farmer’s prices. It seems absurd that we should be urged to buy prepared wheat, corn, and nuts at ten times (more or less) these prices. The prepared foods are good. People who are accustomed to high-priced hotels, etc., can no doubt be reached, and in many instances the whole gospel in this manner be set before ‘the neglected rich;’ but I protest against teaching no one but the rich. So I say to you, Give us precept upon precept, fact upon fact, to wean our people from meat and mush, and to show them the better ways of cooking. W. C.” We have no recipes at hand for making the substitute preparations here called for, but it is probable that many of our readers could give valuable information in this line, and we have printed this to set the matter before them, and invite them to contribute such information for the columns of the REVIEW. We shall hope to have a number of responses to this invitation.