Part 27 (2/2)

Perhaps the cla.s.s of foods which have come most largely into the public eye of late years are the so-called

Breakfast Foods,

consisting generally of cereals, pro-digested or so treated as to be easy of digestion. Several of these, such as Shredded Wheat Biscuits, have been frequently referred to in different parts of the book, so that no further words are needed to commend them. If any are sceptical, or even curious, regarding ”what they are,” a demonstration recently described by a Manchester friend might serve to rea.s.sure them. It was quite on the American ”pig and sausage” lines, for one saw the whole wheat grain going in at one part of a machine and coming out at another in the form of a ”Triscuit” ready for use.

Among other specially good foods are

Granose Flakes.

These consist of the entire wheat-kernel in the form of delicious, crisp flakes, ready for use, with cream, stewed fruit, &c., or in any way in which bread crumbs may be used. They are very handy to have in the general storeroom to sprinkle over cauliflower or any dish served _au gratin_.

That they are at once nutritious and easily digested is attested by the fact that physicians of high standing put their patients on a diet of ”Granose.”

I have known personally of cases of extreme gastric debility where the patients were put on this food almost exclusively for months together.

They may also be had in the form of

Granose Biscuits,

and these are excellent for general use. Toasted for a few minutes and then b.u.t.tered--or the b.u.t.ter may be put on while toasting--they furnish a delicacy which few will fail to appreciate.

Avenola, Toasted Wheat Flakes, Nut Rolls, and Gluten Meal, containing 30 per cent. to 60 per cent. Gluten, are among the other products of the same firm--the International Health a.s.sociation, Stanborough Park, Watford, Herts--which I have s.p.a.ce here only to name.

In the chapter on Breakfast Foods and elsewhere the various products of the London Nut Food Co., 465 Battersea Park Road, London, S.W.--Grain Granules, Gluten Meal, &c., are mentioned, besides which they have a great variety of

Nut Cream Rolls and Nut Cream Biscuits,

made from pure wheat meal and shortened with nut b.u.t.ter. They are aerated and free from yeast and chemicals. In the way of

PORRIDGES,

I should like to specially commend

Banana Oats

as being something quite new and appetising. It is very easily prepared, requiring only about 10 minutes' cooking. It is put up in threepenny packets, with which full directions for cooking are given. I may say that I generally make of a stiffer consistency than quant.i.ties given, and cook longer in double boiler.

Another good porridge for those who cannot take the regular oatmeal can be made with

Robinson's Patent Groats.

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