THE NEW
Hydropathic Cook-Book ;
WITH
RECIPES FOR COOKING ON HYGIENIC PRINCIPLES:
CONTAINING ALSO A
PHILOSOPHICAL EXPOSITION OF THE RELATIONS OF FOOD TO HEALTH ; THE CHEMICAL
ELEMENTS AND PROXIMATE CONSTITUTION OF ALIMENTARY PRINCIPLES ; THE NU-
TRITIVE PROPERTIES OF ALL KINDS OF ALIMENTS ; THE RELATIVE VALUE OF
VEGETABLE AND ANIMAL SUBSTANCES ; THE SELECTION AND PRESERVA-
TION OF DIETETIC MATERIALS, ETC., ETC.
BY R. T. TRALL, M.D.
With Numerous Illustrative Engravings
NEW YORK:
FOWLERS AND WELLS, PUBLISHERS,
NO. 308 BROADWAY,
London: 142 Strand.
BOSTON: 1855. Philadelphia :
No. 142 Washington St. } { No. 231 Arch Street.
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Sylvester Graham (1794-1851) was a Presbyterian minister who is today most famous for inventing the Graham cracker in 1829. Less well-known are the social reforms and health theories he championed. He believed, for example, that a vegetable diet and eating homemade, coarsely ground whole-wheat flour promoted mental and physical health and prevented alcoholism. He also advised Americans to sleep on hard mattresses and to take cold showers, a health regimen that evolved into hydropathy, or the "water cure." By the 1840s Graham was a well-known and eccentric resident of Northampton, Massachusetts, where a newspaper in 1851 derided him as "Dr. Bran, the philosopher of sawdust pudding." Graham's theories influenced many later diet reformers, including the Kellogg brothers and C.W. Post, who pioneered the invention of granola, corn flakes, and other breakfast cereals. This recipe for Graham Bread appeared in a "Hydropathic Cook-Book" in 1855.
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Graham Bread Recipe from "The New Hydropathic Cook-Book"
publisher Fowlers and Wells |
author Robert Thacher Trall (1812-1877) |
date 1855 |
location New York |
width 5.0" |
height 7.5" |
process/materials printed paper, ink |
item type Books/Book |
accession # #L01.002 |
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