How to keep well in wartime
1943 1943 1940s 28 pages : illustrations HOW TO KEEP WELL IN WARTIME enough of these vegetables are eaten there need be no fear of scurvy, so long as the vegetables are properly prepared and cooked. For children under five Vitamin C in the form of concentrated orange juice is obtainable from Welfare...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : His Majesty's Stationery Office
1943
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1943
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HOW TO KEEP WELL IN WARTIME enough of these vegetables are eaten there need be no fear of scurvy, so long as the vegetables are properly prepared and cooked. For children under five Vitamin C in the form of concentrated orange juice is obtainable from Welfare Centres and from local Food Offices. How to Cook Your Vegetables. You can waste your Vitamin C if you don't cook vour vegetables properly. Here are some hints on cooking vegetables. Obtain them as fresh as possible. Keep them in a cool place and avoid crushing or bruising them. Prepare them only just in time for the meal. If you soak them before boiling them, add salt (2 teaspoonsful to a pint) to the water. When boiling vegetables use only just enough water to cover them. Bring the water to the boil and add salt before you put the vegetables in. Put them in gradually to prevent the water going off the boil : don't add baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). Boil the vegetables just long enough to make them tender, not a moment longer. Serve them at once. Don't keep them warming up on the hot plate, because the longer vegetables are heated the more Vitamin C is destroyed. Lastly, use the water in which the vegetables have been boiled for soups or gravy. Potatoes should be boiled or steamed in their skins. Now that we are all digging for victory there should be plenty of vegetables. Don't cook them all, eat some raw every day as far round the year as possible. And remember that lettuce isn't the only salad vegetable. Mustard and cress, watercress, shredded cabbage, grated carrot, tomatoes, endive, young dandelion leaves, radish, parsley, and chives, are some of the vegetables that can go into the salad dish. From vegetables, cooked and raw, you get calcium, iron, and various salts and vitamins. Wholesome Bread. Provided you take the largest amount possible of protective foods, you needn't worry much about what else you eat. In peacetime people tended to eat far too much sugar and refined cereals (including white bread). Wartime necessities should become peacetime habits. So when peace returns still go steady with the sugar, and still go on eating wheatmeal or brown bread. Russians eat black bread, and they're a tough lot. Wheat meal bread, by the way, has safely been given to patients with stomach ulcers without upsetting their digestions. Don't forget that food is meant to be enjoyed. The more you like it (without making a pig of yourself) the more good it will do you. You can't enjoy it to the full if it's badly cooked or badly served. Cooking is an art, and to cook well is something to be proud of. Drink Enough Water. About 75 per cent. of your body is water. And if anyone talks to you about "dry bones'' you can inform him that 25 per cent. of the weight of a bone is contributed by water. When sugar is burnt in the body, to yield energy and heat, it is 12
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