Original White House Cookbook

One large cupful of boiling milk, one even tablespoonful of arrowroot rubbed to a paste with cold water, two teaspoonfuls of white sugar, a pinch of salt, flavor with rose-water. Proceed as in the foregoing recipes, boiling and stirring eight minutes. Turn into a wet mold, and, when firm, serve with cream and powdered sugar. TAPIOCA JELLY. Soak a cupful of tapioca in a quart of cold water, after wasning it thoroughly two or three times ; after soaking three or four hours, simmer it in a stewpan until it becomes quite clear, stirring often ; add the juice of a lemon, and a little of the grated peel, also a pinch of salt. Sweeten to taste. Wine can be substituted for lemon, if liked. SLIPPERY-ELM BARK TEA. Beeak the bark into bits, pour boiling water over it, cover, and let it infuse until cold. Sweeten, ice, and take for summer disorders, or add lemon juice and drink for a bad cold. ELAX-SEED TEA. Upon an ounce of unbruised flax-seed and a little pulverized liquoriceroot pour a pint of boiling (soft or rain) water, and place the vessel containing these ingredients near, but not on, tjie fire for four hours. Strain through a linen cloth. Make it fresh every day. An excellent drink in fever accompanied by a cough. FLAX-SEED LEMONADE. To A large tablespoonful of flax-seed, allow a tumbler and a half of cold water. Boil them together till the liquid becomes very sticky. Then strain it hot over a quarter of a pound of pulverized sugar, and an ounce of pulverized gum arabic. Stir it till quite dissolved, and squeeze into it the juice of a lemon. This mixture has frequently been found an efficacious remedy for a cold, taking a wine-glass of it as often as the cough is troublesome. TAMARIND WATER. Put tamarinds into a pitcher or tumbler, till it is one-third full, then fill up with cold water, cover it, and let it infuse for a quarter of an hour or more. Currant jelly or cranberry juice mixed with water makes a pleasant drink for an invalid. SAGO JELLY. Made the same as tapioca. If seasoning is not advisable, the sago may be boiled in milk, instead of water, and eaten plain. Rice jelly made the same, using only half as much rice as sago. ARROWROOT WINE JELLY. One cupful of boiling water, one scant tablespoonful of arrowroot, mixed with a little cold water, one tablespoonful of sugar, a pinch of salt, one tablespoonful of brandy, or three tablespoonfuls of wine. Excellent for a sick person without fever. HOMINY. Put to soak one pint of hominy in two and one-half pints of boiling water over night, in a tin vessel with a tight cover ; in the morning add one-half pint of sweet milk and a little salt. Place on a brisk fire, in a kettle of boiling water, the tin vessel containing the hominy ; let boil onehalf hour. Cracked wheat, oatmeal, mush, are all good food for the sick. CHICKEN JELLY.