Word: meats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Under the heading "Food and Drink," we find that "among the articles which are both nutritious and easily digested are milk, soft boiled eggs, tripe, oysters (raw, stewed or roasted, not fried), rare beef, meat broths and soups." Then follow various remarks on the cost of food together with directions and advice as to the proper modes of preparing the raw material for eating. Though these remarks are particularly intended for those students who board themselves, there are many of them which are worthy the perusal of many a housekeeper or cook, while even the authorities of Memorial Hall might...
...breakfast Dr. Wilder says that it should be the principal meal, and he recommends lunch in the middle of the day and dinner at night. "Breakfast," he says, "should always include oatmeal, mush, cracked wheat, or some similar article, with plenty of meat.' Then come some remarks on the necessity for "regularity in the action of the bowels" with advice in case of disorder in those organs...
...very inferior character. According to this we get nothing whatever in the middle of the day. I, for myself, would prefer a very much different plan and I am sure that I am not alone in my preference. Instead of the hot breakfasts, with two kinds of meat and several vegetables and the light lunches, I prefer a light breakfast of coffee, chocolate and rolls with cracked wheat, oat-meal and a few other similar articles and a warm lunch instead. Let us have good soups with some warm meats and vegetables. Most men eat but a light breakfast...
...between the systems of the two countries is in the arrangements about meals. In England the student is thrown more upon his own resources. "His 'house' gives him a breakfast of tea and bread and butter; he markets for himself for what else he wants - eggs, marmalade, jam, potted meats. In school, as out of it, the American breakfast of fish, beefsteak, hot cakes, or what not, is unknown. The boys breakfast in small rooms, twenty or twenty-five together, each eating such breakfast as his means, his tastes, his skill in marketing, or the liberality of a wealthier friend...
...rigid rules. Punch and "flip" were forbidden, and any student out after 9 P. M. was "adjudged guilty of whatsoever disorder might occur in the town that night." At Harvard Mrs. Foster was made stocking-mender at a salary of pound 12. Students were allowed a pound of meat and a pint of beer at dinner, and a half-pint of beer at night. For supper they could choose between a half-pint of milk and a biscuit. They were given clean table-cloths twice a week, and finally could indulge in the luxury of plates. Pudding was a delicacy...