(and one would be preferable) by each boarder at a meal. Fruit of various kinds, according to the season, should be uniformly furnished for the breakfast table; such as stewed, dried, or fresh apples, peaches, pears, cherries, plums, cranberries, &c. &c. And in their season, a reasonable quantity of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, &c. &c. should be furnished for the table, if the quantity in the market will afford them at a reasonable price.
The butter used upon the table should be of the sweetest and best kind that can be procured, and very sparingly eaten; and only on such bread and other things as will not melt it.[1]
Rule VIII. Dinner.–The dining table should be furnished with great neatness, plainness and simplicity. If animal food is used at all, (which is not necessary nor best,) not more than one kind of flesh should be brought on the table at the same meal, and that should be either boiled, roasted, broiled or baked, and furnished only with its own juices as a gravy: nor should any other article of seasoning be used upon it in cooking, nor by the boarders in eating, besides a moderate quantity of salt. Black and red pepper, mustard, and such kinds of seasonings, together with all made gravies, should be totally, and utterly excluded from the table and from the kitchen.
- ↑ Butter, at best, is a questionable article, and should be very sparingly used by the healthy, and not at all by the diseased.
