quarts of cold water and a little salt; boil them down until reduced to half the quantity, then strain through a colander. When quite cold remove all the fat carefully, then put this jelly into a perfectly clean saucepan, adding sugar and sherry or Madeira wine to the taste, the rind of two fresh lemons peeled thinly, with their juice, and a small wineglassful of best brandy; let these simmer thoroughly for five minutes, then add the white of five eggs beaten up with their shells and stir constantly until it boils; let it boil slowly for twenty minutes, when it may be set aside ten or fifteen minutes to settle, after which it can be poured through a strainer or jelly bag into molds.

A valuable article in convalescence.

CAUDLE.

10, 119.

Beat up an egg to a froth, add a wineglassful of sherry and half a pint of gruel flavored with lemon peel and nutmeg, and sweeten to taste.

CINNAMON TEA.

10,120.

To half a pint of fresh new milk add ground cinnamon enough to flavor, and white sugar to taste; bring to boiling point, and take either warm or cold. A little brandy may be added, if the case demand. Excellent for diarrhoea.

CREAM OF TARTAR WATER.

10,121.

Pour a pint of boiling water over the peel of half a lemon, cover closely, let it stand for five minutes, then stir in a teaspoonful of cream of tartar; when quite cold, sweeten to the taste. A refrigerant and diuretic drink.

CREAM OF TARTAR WHEY.
10,122.

Stir a large teaspoonful of cream of tartar into a pint of boiling milk. Sweeten to the

taste.

DEMULCENT DRINK.

10,123.

Take a pinch of isinglass, and boil it in half a pint of new milk, with half a dozen bruised almonds and three lumps of sugar.

EGG BRANDY. 10,124.

Rub the yolks of two eggs with half an ounce of loaf sugar, and add four ounces of brandy and cinnamon water.

As a restorative and stimulant in doses of half a wineglassful to a wineglassful, in the sinking stage of typhus and other adynamic fevers.

EGG LEMONADE. 10,125.

Beat the white of one fresh egg, juice of one lemon, and a teaspoonful of sugar into a glass of water.

A pleasant and nourishing drink in low fevers, dysentery, inflammation of stomach, etc.

EGG NOG.

10,126.

Take the yelks of four eggs, and three tablespoonfuls of pulverized sugar, and beat them to a cream, adding a little nutmeg then mix in two ounces of the best brandy, and half a wineglass of Madeira wine; when this is well mixed, stir in a pint and a half of rich milk, have ready the whites of the eggs beaten to a stiff froth, and beat them in the mixture when it is ready for use.

This preparation is not likely to cause headache, and is nourishing to the debilitated consumptive.

FLAX SEED TEA. 10.127.

Pour a pint of boiling water over an ounce of whole flax seed and quarter of an ounce of bruised liquorice root; cover lightly, digest for three or four hours near a fire, and strain through linen. With lemon, if necessary. It may be given as a common drink in catarrh.

FLAX SEED LEMONADE.

10,128.

One quart boiling water poured on four tablespoonfuls of whole flax seed, juice of two lemons, leaving out the peel. Sweeten to taste; stew three hours in a covered pitcher. If too thick, put in cold water with the lemon juice and sugar. Ice for drinking.

FLOUR BALL OR FLOUR BOILED.

10,129.

Take one quart of good flour, tie it up in a pudding bag so tightly as to make a firm, solid mass; put it into a pot of boiling water early in the morning, and let it boil until bed-time. Then take it out and let it dry. In the morning peel off from the surface, and throw away the thin rind of dough, and, with a nutmeg grater, grate down the hard dry mass into a powder. Of this from one to three tablespoonfuls may be used, by first rubbing it into a paste with a little milk, then adding it to about a pint of milk, and finally by bringing the whole to just the boiling point. It must be given through a nursing bottle.

Useful in irritability of the stomach and bowels, and in dysentery and diarrhœa.

An excellent food for children that are costive may be made by using bran meal or unbolted flour instead of the white flour, preparing it as above directed.

FLOUR CAUdle.

10,130.

Mix a tablespoonful of flour with about five tablespoonfuls of water; set on the fire an equal quantity of new milk, slightly sweetened, and let it boil; pour it gradually over the flour and water: let them boil together for twenty minutes, constantly stirring

Useful for infants with weak condition of the bowels.

FRUIT DRINKS.

10,131.

Cherries, currants, or raspberries may be used. Put the fruit in a jar, and set in a sauce pan of water over the fire, let the water boil slowly until the fruit in the jar is well broken, giving out its juice freely; then pour through a strainer or jelly-bag, slightly pressing the fruit. This juice sweetened and iced makes a pleasant, cooling drink.

GOAT'S MILK (Artificial). 10,132.

Boil an ounce of fresh suet, cut into small pieces and tied in a roomy muslin bag, in a quart of milk, in which is dissolved a quarter of an ounce of white sugar candy.

Useful in the emaciation of scrofula and phthisis, and for infants raised with a spoon.

GRUEL.

10,133.

Mix two spoonfuls of oatmeal in a little milk, stir this into a pint of boiling water. Simmer thirty minutes stirring frequently, strain, and add a little wine or brandy.

GUM WATER.

10,134.

This may be made simply by dissolving by maceration in a quart of water, half an ounce of gum arabic previously washed with water, and adding lemon-peel to improve the flavor, or, by pouring a quart of boiling water on a mixture of quarter of a pound of white gum arabic, the same quantity of rock candy, and a large thinly sliced lemon, constantly stirring and keeping in a warm place, until the gum is dissolved. A pleasant demulcent drink.

HARTSHORN JELLY.

10,135.

Take of hartshorn shavings four ounces, water one quart. Boil over a gentle fire until one pint of the water is dissipated. Strain, and add lemon juice, sugar and wine. This forms, either with or without the last named ingredient, a very nourishing diet for convalescents; and when mixed with an equal portion of milk, is well adapted to the bowel complaints of children.

HOP TEA

10,136.

Put a tablespoonful of hops in a pint of water. Let it simmer. When it savors strongly of the hops, strain, and add white sugar, a teaspoonful at a time, to suit the taste.

INDIAN MEAL GRUEL.

10,137.

Mix half a cup of Indian meal with a very little water, stir until perfectly smooth. To three cups of boiling water, salted, add the meal, stirring in slowly; let it boil half an hour. It can be retained on the stomach when almost everything else is rejected.

2. If one volume of buttermilk be mixed with one or two volumes of sweet milk, in a short time lively fermentation sets in and in about three days the work is completed. This produces a wine scented fluid, rich in alcohol, carbonic, lactic acid and caseine.

The sweet milk used should not be entirely freed from cream. The bottles should be of strong glass and only two thirds filled. The fermenting milk must be industriously shaken at least three times a day, and then the cork put in firmly, so that the fluid will become well charged and cause the carbonic acid to escape forcibly on opening the bottle. The bottles must be daily opened and at least twice each day brought nearly to a horizontal position in order to allow the carbonic acid to escape and air to enter, otherwise fermentation rapidly ceases. If the drink is desired strong in carbonic acid, the bottles toward the end of fermentation should be placed with the necks down. In order to ferment a fresh quantity of milk, simply add one-third of its volume of either actively fermenting or freshly fermented milk. The temperature should be from 50° to 68° F. About 60° being the most favorable.

-Franz Kogelman.

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LEMONADE JELLY. 10,148.

Slice very thinly three fresh lemons and two Seville oranges, pour over them a pint of boiling water, cover closely for half an hour, while the orange and lemon are steeping have one and a half ounces of isinglass soaking in half a cup. of cold water; when quite soft put it in a perce lain lined sauce-pan, and pour over it the femon and water; let it simmer for fifteen minutes, stir in two tablespoonfuls of white sugar and half a pint of good wine, let it simmer two minutes and strain through jelly-strainer or bag.

LIME JUICE CORDIAL. 10,150.

Take glucose, four ounces; syrup, 16 ounces; lime juice, sixteen ounces; water, twenty-eight ounces; tincture of lemon peel, orange flower water (triple) of each sufficient to flavor. -New Remedies.

LIME WATER AND MILK.

10,151.

One wine glass lime water, mixed with one goblet of milk. Can be retained in the stomach when it rejects everything else. It may be taken as often as desired.

LIEBIG'S FOOD FOR INFANTS.

10,152.

Take half an ounce of wheaten flour, an equal quantity of malt flour, 7% grains of bicarbonate of potassium, and an ounce of water, well mixed; to which is added five ounces of fresh milk. The whole is put on a gentle fire until it begins to thicken, when it must be removed, stirred for several minutes, again heated and stirred till fluid, and then boiled, and passed through a sieve. It is slightly aperient, and in cases of diarrhoea, prepared chalk, gr. xx, may be substituted for the bicarbonate of potassium.

One teaspoonful of Liebig's food for infants dissolved in a teacupful of new milk and water, equal parts, with the addition of a tablespoonful of cinnamon water.

LOBSTER.

10,153.

Take a small claw of lobster, or crab, and put on it a little salt, a quarter of a teaspoonful of salad oil, and a drop or two of vinegar.

This is digestible even for a delicate stomach.

MACARONI SOUP.

10,154.

Boil a quart of beef tea until reduced to twothirds, add two ounces of well cooked macaroni, and boil down to a pint. Season to the taste. A pleasant soup for convalescents.

MARSHMALLOW TEA. 10.155.

and one ounce of Sultana raisins, to two and a Add two ounces of dried marshmallow root, half pints of boiling water, boil slowly until reduced one half. Strain without pressure.

An excellent demulcent drink in renal disease with a tendency to gravel.

MEAL PORRIDGE.

10,156.

Boil some coarse meal, stirring occasionally, until the mass is reduced to a jelly (which will take some hours), then strain through muslin, and to the liquid portion strained off, add sugar to sweeten it; again boil to dissolve the sugar, stirring well the whole time to prevent burning; when the sugar is well dissolved, it is ready for

use.

Recommended for infantile constipation. -Dr. J. R. Seymour.

Put a few mint leaves in a pint of boiling water, cover, and stand near the fire for an hour. To be used in febrile and other complaints. When made of fresh leaves, it relieves vomiting. MUTTON JELLY. 10,175.

Six shanks of mutton, one and a half quarts of water, pepper and salt to taste, half a pound of lean beef, a crust of bread toasted brown. Soak the shanks in water several hours, and scrub them well, put them and the beef and the other ingredients into a saucepan with the water, and let simmer very gently for five hours Strain it, and when cold take off the fat; warm up as much as required when wanted.

MUSTARD WHEY.

10,176.

Boil one quart of milk with an ounce of bruised mustard seeds, until the milk curdles; strain to separate the whey, and add wine if desired.

Useful in low fever, debilitated stomach, and in dropsy, as an urinary stimulant.

OATMEAL PORRIDGE.

10,177.

Mix two tablespoonfuls of oat meal with three tablespoonfuls of cold water; stir into a pint of boiling water, boil for three quarters of an hour. To be eaten with a little salt and butter, or sugar and milk.

Good to relieve constipation, where there is no dyspeptic tendency.

ONION GRUEL.

10,178.

Slice down a few onions and boil them in a pint of new milk, stir in a sprinkle of oat meal and a very little salt, boil till the onions are quite tender, then sup rapidly and go to bed. For cold.

ORANGE JELLY.

10,179.

Melt a quarter of a pound of sugar in some hot water, and pour it over five ounces of orange juice, previously pressed from fine ripe fruit. In the mean time, have three-quarters of an ounce of gelatine melted in a little water, and add to the syrup, boil for two minutes.

ORANGE WATER.

10,180.

Pour a quart of water over the juice of six

oranges, and two lemons; cover for ten minutes, sweeten, and serve iced.

A pleasant, cooling drink.

OYSTER SOUP.

10,181.

Drain one pint of oysters through a colander for five minutes, remove the liquor, and then pour over them one pint of boiling water, which must be thrown aside. Add to the liquor already drained a pint of boiling water, and put over the fire in a porcelain lined saucepan, boil until all the skum has been skimmed off; then add half a pint of fresh milk, one water cracker rolled to a powder, a piece of butter, and a little salt and pepper. Boil ten minutes, and just before the soup is to be served turn in the oysters from the colander, and let them scald for three minutes.

Oysters cooked in this way are not apt to give discomfort, and are therefore adapted to invalids.