_For those who Dine very late_--the best Supper is Gruel (No. 572), or a little Bread and Cheese, or Pounded Cheese (No. 542), and a glass of Beer--but if You have had an early, or a _Ban Yan Dinner_--or Instinct suggests that the exhaustion, from extraordinary exertion, requires more restorative materials,--furnish your Stomach with a Chop or a Chicken, &c. or some of the easily digestible and nutritive materials referred to in the _Index_ under the article _Food for Feeble Stomachs_--and as much diffusible stimulus as will animate the Circulation, and ensure the influence of "Nature's sweet restorer, Balmy Sleep,"--the soundness of which,--depends entirely on the Stomach being in good temper, and the Heart supporting the circulation with Salutary Vigour. See the _Art of Sleeping_.--_Index_. For the Diet to be confined to Beef and Mutton, is a sufficient abridgment of the amusements of the Mouth--it is a barbarous mortification, to insist on these being always cooked the same way[12], and we advise an occasional indulgence in the whole range of plain Cookery, from (No. 1) to (No. 98). _Broils_ (No. 94) are ordered in the plan for Training, probably, because the most convenient manner of obtaining the desired portion _Hot_,--(Food is then most easy of Digestion--_before the process of Digestion can commence, it must take the temperature of the Stomach_--which, when in a languid state, has no superfluous Heat to spare--) but as the Lean part is often scorched and dried, and the Fat becomes empyreumatic, from being in immediate contact with the Fire--a slice of well roasted Ribs (No. 20),--or Sir Loin of Beef (No. 19), or a Leg, Neck, Loin, or Saddle of Mutton (No. 23, or 26, or 31), must be infinitely more succulent and nutritive--whether this be rather _over_, or _under_-done, the previous habits of the Eater must determine--the Medium, between _over_ and _under_-dressing--is in general most Agreeable, and certainly most Wholesome. That _Meat_ which is considerably _under_-done, contains more Nutriment than that which is _over_-done, is true enough;--that which is _not done at all_, contains a great deal more--but, in the ratio that it is _Raw_[13], so is it unfortunately difficult of digestion, as _Spallanzani_ (see _Index_) has proved by actual and satisfactory experiments. OUR FOOD MUST BE DONE--_either by our Cook,--or by our Stomach_,--before Digestion can take place--(see 1st page of _Obs._ on _Siesta_); surely no man in his senses, would willingly be so wanting in consideration of the comfort, &c. of his Stomach, as to give it the needless trouble of Cooking and Digesting also--and waste its valuable energies in work which a Spit or a Stewpan can do better.