SUMMER BREAKFASTS

Northern Advocate, 18 February 1926, Page 6

SUMMER BREAKFASTS

Foreign and American visitors say that the Britisher—which includes the Australian—has no originality in the matter of breakfast, and will cheerfully eat bacon and eggs in hot weather as well as cold.

Latterly there has been a decided breaking away from this traditional meal. - Sensible people now eat porridge onlytfin the winter months. It is a dish that takes time to prepare carefully, and the summer menu should banish what is only a food for cold countries. - ' The ideal breakfast should" contain fruit. Bananas with cream are exceedingly nourishing, and stewed fruit is good. Apples taken before food are looked upon as an excellent tonic; the old adage, “an apple a clay keeps the doctor away,” is also helpful in keeping the dentist at bay. The slogan to keep fit, eat more fruit, is insisted upon by most doctors, and the new couplet says, “an orange a day keeps sickness away.” People over forty especially are well advised to eat orangey or other fruits before breakfast so as to get enough iron, calcium, phosphorus, and regulating acids into their system. This is a simple and effective health insurance for a- well-balanced diet.

Toast and marmalade, with tea (Chinese for choice, as it contains less tannin and therefore is less injurious to health), or coffee can nrovidc the foundation for the meal w’th variations in the wav of eggs, fish, fruit, etc.