Chapter 4 Breakfast Beverages Part A

Water does not yield any calories but has value as a food  We should drink at least a half dozen glasses of water a day. preferably 8.  Even in 1927 the comment was that most of us need to drink more water. 

How the body uses water"  1. Water is a part of all body tissue.  2 water, the blood and lymph fluid, is the food carrier for cells of the body. 3. water is an important vehicle for the elimination of waste products from the body.  4. Water is a regulator of body temperature.  5. In the alimentary canal, water is an aid to digestion to absorption and in preventing constipation.
We should drink water at anytime during the day, and especially a short time before meals in particularly breakfast.  We should also work to make sure our water supply is safe and clean. 

Water in cookery, we depend on water for boiling, stewing, streaming, freezing and preparing foods while cooking, for many beverages and for cleaning both the kitchen and your kitchen utensils. Water with too much lime in it is hard water,  Less lime is soft water.  Either one is useful for cooing or washing but the mineral in water does affect the taste.  The amount of soap you have to use is different the harder or softer the water as well. 
I will continue this section in Part B with more on Tea and coffee and cocoa.