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Show Concerning Beef Tea. Clear broths aro merely aids to digestion, diges-tion, little whips and spurs to sluggish powers. Invaluablo In their proper place, it Is only when beef tea, mutton broth, chicken or clam broth, are mistaken mis-taken for real food that they become dangerous and a source of positive disaster. dis-aster. Clear animal broth or beef tea means starvation for the sick. The albumen al-bumen of meats Is hardened by hot water, wa-ter, and either remains In the moat Itself It-self or In the form of scum Is skimmed off the top of the infusion. The water takes up the flavoring principle and a omall portion of other material, but Is devoid of the nutriment commonly supposed sup-posed to be dissolved by It. This also holds true of mutton broth, supposed to be "so nourishing." In itself, it-self, It Is not nourishing at all. It 1b the barley cooked In It that Is nourishing. nourish-ing. The real name for mutton broth, based upon Its nutritive properties, would be barley1 broth flavored with mutton extract. So, too, Is chicken broth most often a rice broth flavored with chicken extract. And clear beef tea Is but hot water generously flavored with meat extract that Is seasoned with pepper and salt to taste. When their true nature Is divulged by a new label, meat Infusions and their fictitious value appear In qulto a different light. The nourishing part of beef tea lies In the meat that Is thrown away. Unless containing con-taining definite nutrients, such an thoao that exist In rice, wheat, potato, barley, egg or milk, broths are without food elements in the quantity that it Is possible pos-sible to use. Harper's Bazar. |