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Food Combinations

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Food Combinations

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  1. Milk, one of the best foods known, can be taken with all kinds of fruits, provided no cereal starch be eaten at the same meal. All foods that con- tain both carbohydrates and proteins compose healthful combinations.

  2. Starch, sugar and fats may be properly termed the “fuel of the body.” They supply all the force, energy, heat and brain power of the system, while proteids produce the structure in which this en- ergy is reposed.

  3. The few fundamental rules given here apply to a normal or healthy stomach. Where any ab- normal condition Is present, selections of food must be made to counteract and overcome them.

  4. The study of food combinations, however. In its last analysis, is the science of trying to ascer- tain the best way to do the wrong thing. The less foods are mixed and combined at the same meal, the healthier and higher that form of life will be which they build.

  5. The system requires daily so much water, proteids, carbohydrates, fat and salts. The foods necessary to supply these elements can be eaten at different meals, instead of combining them all at the same time. It is this most Interesting and Im- portant problem that the use of uncooked foods will solve.

  6. The ultimate and most scientific end that

By Christian, Mollie. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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