THICKENED MILK. — With a little milk, mix smooth a tablespoonful of flour and a pinch ofySaft. Pour upon it a quart of boiling, milk✪ Thickened Milk, and when it is thoroughly amalgamated put all back into the saucepan, and boil up once, being careful not to burn, and stirring all the time^ to keep it per¬ fectly smooth and free from lumps. Serve with slices of dry toast. It is excellent in diarrhoea, and becomes a specific by scorching the flour before mixing with the milk. TO KEEP THE BLOOD PURE, AND IN ACTIVE CIRCULATION — Use 41 King of the Blood ” according to directions. It is good for all scrofulous diseases, spring disorders, biliousness, and is an excellent tonic. See page 20. SOFT TOAST.-— Some invalids like this very much indeed, and nearly ail do when it is nicely made. Toast well, but not too brown, a couple of thin slices of bread ; put them on a warm plate and pour over boiling water ; cover quickly with another plate of 'the same size, and drain the water off ; remove the upper plate, butter the toast, put it in the oven one minute, and then cover again with’ a hot plate and serve at once, SOFT BAILED EGGS. — Fresh eggs for invalids, who like them cooked soft, should be put in a pan of boiling water, and set on a paft of uie range where they will not boil for several minutes. At the end of that time they will be like jeliy, perfectly soft, but beautifully done, and quite digesti¬ ble by even weak stomachs. 0>EEF TEA FOR THE SICK.-i pound lean beef✪ Beef Tea for the Sick, cut into small piece*. O Put into jar without a drop of water ; cover tightly, set in a pot of cold water. Heat gradually to a boil, and continue this steadily for three or four hours, until the meat is like white rags, and the juice all drawn out. Season with salt to taste, and when cold, skim. The patient will often pre¬ fer this ice-cold to hot. UTTON OR CHICKEN BROTH. — -1 lb. lean mutton or chicken, cut small, 1 quart water, cold, 1 tablespoonful rice, or barley, soaked in a very little warm water, 4 tablespoonfuls milk, salt and pepper, with a little chopped parsley✪ Mutton or Chicken Broth. Boil the meat, unsalted in the water, keeping it closely covered, until it falls to pieces. Strain it out, add the soaked barley or rice ; simmer half an hour, stirring often ; stir in the seasoning and the milk, and simmer five minutes after it heats up well, taking care it does not bum. Serve hot, with cream crackers. Chicken jelly.— Half a raw chicken✪ Chicken Jelly, pounded with a nr ’’et, bones and meat together, plenty of cold water to cover it well, about a quart. Heat slowly in a covered vessel, and let it simmer until the meat is in white rags and the liquid reduced one-half. Strain and press, first through a col¬ ander, 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. You can make into sandwiches by putting the jelly between thin slices of bread spread lightly with butter Chronic and acute diseases are often cured by our Medicines. (17) How to Break Up a Bad Cold.

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THICKENED MILK. — With a little milk, mix smooth a tablespoonful of flour and a pinch ofySaft. Pour upon it a quart of boiling, milk, and when it is thoroughly amalgamated put all back into the saucepan, and boil up once, being careful not to burn, and stirring all the time^ to keep it per¬ fectly smooth and free from lumps. Serve with slices of dry toast. It is excellent in diarrhoea, and becomes a specific by scorching the flour before mixing with the milk. TO KEEP THE BLOOD PURE, AND IN ACTIVE CIRCULATION — Use 41 King of the Blood ” according to directions. It is good for all scrofulous diseases, spring disorders, biliousness, and is an excellent tonic. See page 20. SOFT TOAST.-— Some invalids like this very much indeed, and nearly ail do when it is nicely made. Toast well, but not too brown, a couple of thin slices of bread ; put them on a warm plate and pour over boiling water ; cover quickly with another plate of 'the same size, and drain the water off ; remove the upper plate, butter the toast, put it in the oven one minute, and then cover again with’ a hot plate and serve at once, SOFT BAILED EGGS. — Fresh eggs for invalids, who like them cooked soft, should be put in a pan of boiling water, and set on a paft of uie range where they will not boil for several minutes. At the end of that time they will be like jeliy, perfectly soft, but beautifully done, and quite digesti¬ ble by even weak stomachs. 0>EEF TEA FOR THE SICK.-i pound lean beef, cut into small piece*. O Put into jar without a drop of water ; cover tightly, set in a pot of cold water. Heat gradually to a boil, and continue this steadily for three or four hours, until the meat is like white rags, and the juice all drawn out. Season with salt to taste, and when cold, skim. The patient will often pre¬ fer this ice-cold to hot. UTTON OR CHICKEN BROTH. — -1 lb. lean mutton or chicken, cut small, 1 quart water, cold, 1 tablespoonful rice, or barley, soaked in a very little warm water, 4 tablespoonfuls milk, salt and pepper, with a little chopped parsley. Boil the meat, unsalted in the water, keeping it closely covered, until it falls to pieces. Strain it out, add the soaked barley or rice ; simmer half an hour, stirring often ; stir in the seasoning and the milk, and simmer five minutes after it heats up well, taking care it does not bum. Serve hot, with cream crackers. Chicken jelly.— Half a raw chicken, pounded with a nr ’’et, bones and meat together, plenty of cold water to cover it well, about a quart. Heat slowly in a covered vessel, and let it simmer until the meat is in white rags and the liquid reduced one-half. Strain and press, first through a col¬ ander, 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. You can make into sandwiches by putting the jelly between thin slices of bread spread lightly with butter Chronic and acute diseases are often cured by our Medicines. (17) How to Break Up a Bad Cold.

Ransom's family receipt book, 1885