BAKED APPLES FOR BREAKFAST

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 24

BAKED APPLES FOR BREAKFAST

The true, not the new, should he the motto of those who write or speak about he apple—the fruit longest in use by our branch of the human race. Them are certain simple principles that must e given, fine upon line, precept- upon precept, to every fresh generation of men, or rather should be given just, about that time that the generation is beginning to lose its freshness and to call on tiie doctor for remedies. Efvery well-to-do man of good digestion and ppetito tends to- eat too much meat every day after his twenty-fifth birthday, and one of me values of fruit, the apple above others, is the ease with wh.ch ft may be made an “anti-meat-for-breakfast” article. With baked apples and cream and good roast potatoes on the breakfast table, the dish of cold or hot meat becomes subordinate, even if it is no* entirely abolished. Men of forty, age when every man not a fool is supposed to have acquired the right to give medical advice, at least to himself, will relate their various wonderful discoveries and remarkable selfcures just as they had given up all hope; and in general these reduce themselves to this: “I ate less meat, but I did not know it, and I took a great deal more fruit, especially apples.” Baked apples for breakfast tend to reduce the amount of meat eaten, if we are inclined to cat too much, and to supply the system with mineral foods and the digestive tract with acids. People who eat too much food are not to be advised to eat baked apples as a mere addition to the- breakfast, and those who need a substantial meal must not let the baked apple interfere with the talcing of solid fo°d. As a rule, who eat three meats per diem will wisely have the nivost dish of baked apples obtainable for breakfast. It is a piece of simple wisdom worth pages of ordinary medical literature. The digestion of milk is somewhat delayed by sour fruits, but pure rich cream is not milk, and taken with a juicy baked apple, what dish can be more tempting and wholesome ?

If you are twenty-eight- or thirty-five, inclined to ring the doctor’s bell and talk with your druggist, try this prescription. You may put sugar op the apples, but we shall not sugar-coat the remedy with any mystery or any claim to novelty ; we merely turn to your good wife or your housekeeper, and ask whether she is careful to give you nice roast apples and cream, and to make the breakfast meat dishes as little tempting as may be