The King's College Hospital book of cooking recipes

To one quart of mashed strawberries, add the juice of i lemon and 2 tablespoonfuls of orange juice, 3 pints of water. Let it stand three hours, then strain it upon Jib. of powdered sugar, and stir well till dissolved. Serve ice cold. Miss M. Harben. Additional Recipes, MISCELLANEOUS. Albumen Water. Cut the white of I raw egg in several directions with a clean pair of scissors, add ipt. of cold water, pour it into a bottle and shake well till it is thoroughly mixed. Flavour with lemon juice or cinnamon. , King’s College Hospital. • Beef Tea (1). Six lbs. of the neck of beef (second cut), to be had the day after it is killed. Cut the beef up into small pieces, and put it into a stew-pot (with cover) that will hold all the meat and bones and 2qts. of water. Put the pot into a hot oven, and let it boil as soon as possible. Let it remain io hours slowly boiling. If the beef tea is wanted to be of extra strength and to jelly, add 2lbs. of shin-bone to the above. After all is well stewed, strain off the liquor, and put back into the stew-pot all the beef and bones again; fill it up with cold water, and let all stew for another 12 hours; this makes a good second tea, and can be used by itself or mixed with a little of the best. The stew-pot should be put into the oven at 7 o’clock and left all night to stew. Mrs. Shepherd. Beef Tea (2). Take 1 lb. of lean beef (remove all skin, fat, and gristle), cut it into small cubes about Jin. square, place it in an earthenware jar, and add one pint of water. Cover the jar and stand it in a saucepan of 257 K cold water over a slow fire— or, better still, in a hot oven — and allow it to simmer for four hours; strain, and take off any scum from the surface with clean paper or a spoon. Add boiling water to make one pint. King's College Hospital. Barley Cream for Invalids. 2lbs. of veal, Jib. pearl barley, boiled in i qt. of water till it will pass through the finest sieve, and made the thickness of cream; add salt to taste. Take a small quantity 2 or 3 times a day. Mrs. Douglas Smith. Cream Cheese. Take the cream when it is ripe (that is 2 or 3 days old), put it to drain in muslin for 24 hours, then shape it and put it in a cloth wrung out of salt water; put it between plates and change the cloth every day. Miss Sumner. Cough Mixture. 1 pennyworth Laudanum. ' 1 pennyworth Paregoric. 1 pennyworth Oil of Aniseed. 1 pennyworth Peppermint. Pour ipt. boiling water over Jib. treacle; when cold, add the above ingredients and stir well; then bottle. Miss L. Mawle. Essence of Meat. Two pounds of gravy beef cut up, put in a jar with ioz. butter; keep simmering over the fire 4 hours. Pour the juice off immediately on taking off the fire. Miss M. Perkin. Egg Panada. One oz. stale crumb bread, place in a stewpan with a little cold water and a pinch of salt; let it boil five minutes, strain off the water, and rub the bread through a gravy strainer. Put it back into the stewpan with ioz. butter and the well-beaten yolk of an egg. Stir until it thickens, but do not boil. Mr. Napper. Furniture Polish. 30ZS. Beeswax, ioz. white Beeswax, ioz. curd Soap, ipt. Turpentine, ipt. Water.