Milk Sugar. Sugar made from milk is now a commercial product; it is evaporated and transformed into a fine powder. This powder is used by physicians and druggists in compounding powders, pills, tablets, etc.
Junket. The tablets used in making junket are the essence of rennet. Milk coagulated by rennin has not the sour taste of milk coagulated by acid. It is an admirable article of diet in many weakened conditions of the digestive tract.
Condensed Milk is made by evaporating the water until it is reduced to about sixty-one per cent. It is then hermetically sealed. It is convenient for use whenever fresh milk cannot be obtained, but the process of evaporation changes its flavor so that few care for it as a drink. It may be substituted for cream in coffee, and diluted with three times its volume in water the proportions are again the same as before the water was evaporated.
FOOTNOTES:
[4] Charles D. Woods, Dr. Sc., in Cereal Breakfast Foods.
CHAPTER IV
BEVERAGES
Beverages are used primarily to relieve thirst; they may also contain food elements; they may be used for their effect in heat and cold, for their flavor, which helps to increase the appetite, or for their stimulating properties.
They are used to aid digestion and the elimination of waste, to promote sweating, to soothe inflamed air passages or digestive membranes. They furnish extra nutrition, stimulate nerve action, quench thirst in fevers, warm the body when it is cold or cool it when it is hot. They are used in health or disease, from the snows of the arctics to the palms of the tropics. They may be alkaline or acid, mineral, medicated or mucilaginous, effervescing or plain. The question of their utility and preparation is important in any discussion of foods and food products, though in themselves they are not foods.
The people of all races seemingly crave a stimulant, after bodily or mental exertion, in fatigue, as a “bracer” in prolonged effort, as a promoter of sociability, or as an offering of hospitality. These stimulants are either alcoholic or non-alcoholic.
It is a notable fact that no tribe is so remote that it does not possess some form of beverage which may be offered to friends or used to promote feelings of conviviality; or it may be used to stir up rage if onslaughts against neighboring tribes are contemplated. The craving is universal and as old as the race.