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Oatmeal to Cook in an. Earthen or Stone Jar.
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cooked, and, while it is easily digested, it contains, as we have seen, a larger proportion than wheaten bread of the elements that go to form bone and muscle. The best, Scotch oatmeal costs 2-pence a pound, and this contains far more true nourishment, in the opinion of some medical men, than the same Śweight of Liebig's extract. It commends itself to literary men, and all workers who earn their bread by the sweat of their brains. There are, as we happen to know, several well-known authors, who, though born and bred this side the Tweed, nevertheless swear by oatmeal porridge as a brain-inspiring compound. Then, as to its palatableness, we ourselves have long held the belief that not only is porridge rich in nutritive matter, but when nicely cooked, and eaten with new milk, is simply delicious, a dainty dish, fit, indeed, to set before any king. "
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