How to Feed the Sick: A Hand-book of Diet in DiseaseGross & Delbridge, 1885 - 162 pages |
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How to Feed the Sick: Or, Diet in Disease. for the Profession and the People Charles Gatchell No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 124 - ... tartaric) acid, and let it remain 24 hours; then strain it taking care not to bruise the fruit To each pint of clear liquor add 1£ pounds of loaf sugar, and stir it till dissolved.
Page 146 - ... one-half. Strain and press, first through a colander, then through a coarse cloth. Salt to taste, and pepper if you think best; return to the fire, and simmer five minutes longer. Skim when cool. Give to the patient cold — just from the ice — with unleavened wafers. Keep on the ice, or make into sandwiches by putting the jelly between thin slices of bread spread lightly with butter.
Page 122 - J cup currant jelly. Beat the yolks well, stir in the sugar, and add the hot, not boiling milk, a little at a time. Boil until it begins to thicken. When cool, flavor and pour into a glass dish, first stirring it up well. Heap upon it a meringue of the whites into which you have beaten, gradually, half a cup . of currant, cranberry, or other bright tart jelly.
Page 119 - POTATO SURPRISE. Scoop out the inside of a sound potato, leaving the skin attached on one side of the hole, as a lid. Mince up finely the lean of a juicy mutton-chop, with a little salt and pepper, put it in the potato, pin down the lid, and bake or roast Before serving — in the skin — add a little hot gravy if the mince seems to be too dry.
Page 36 - ... it cries; if it is exposed to cold, or any part of its dress is too tight, or...