Two cups of raw apple, two cups of water, two tea-
spoonfuls of corn starch, one and a half tablespoonfuls
of sugar, one saltspoonful of cinnamon, and a bit of salt✪ Apple Soup.
Stew the apple in the water until it is very soft. Then
mix together in a smooth paste the corn starch, sugar,
salt, and cinnamon with a little cold water. Pour this
into the apple and boil five minutes. Strain it and keep
hot until ready to serve. May serve with cream if desired.
BEEF MINCE.
Have a pound of beef from the round. Free it from
all sinews and fat. Mince it very fine. To two table-
spoonfuls of butter in a saucepan put in the meat and a
teaspoonful of onion juice. Stir for three or four minutes,
or until the meat is hot through. Add salt and pepper,
and if desired a little lemon juice. Serve on hot buttered
toast.✪ Beef Mince
FLAXSEED LEMONADE.
One tablespoonful of whole flaxseed, one pint of boiling
water, lemon juice, and sugar✪ Flaxseed Lemonade. Pick over and wash the
flaxseed, add water, and cook two hours, keeping just
below the boiling point. Strain; add lemon juice and
sugar to taste.
ORANOEADE.
Juice of 1 orange. 1} tablespoonfuls of syrup.
2 tablespoonfuls of crushed ice.
Make a syrup by boiling eight minutes one cup of
water and half a cup of sugar✪ Oranoadade. Mix the orange juice and
the syrup, and pour over the crushed ice.
SIMPLE DISHES FOR THE SICK. 113
SHERRY NOG.
To the yelk of one egg thoroughly beaten add one
tablespoonful of powdered sugar and two tablespoonfuls
of sherry wine and a pint of whipped cream✪ Sherry Nog.
MILK PUNCH.
i cup milk. Sugar.
1 tablespoon whisky, rum, or Few gratings nutmeg✪ Milk Punch,
brandy.
Mix ingredients, cover, and shake well.
COCOA CORDIAL.
1 teaspoon cocoa. J cup boiling water.
1 teaspoon sugar. 1J tablespoons port wine✪ Cocoa Cordial.
Mix cocoa and sugar, add enough of the water to form
a paste. Stir in remainder of water and boil one minute,
then add wine. Useful in cases of chill or exhaustion.
PEPTONIZED OYSTERS.
Mince six large or twelve small oysters. Add to them,
in their own liquor, five grains extract of pancreas with
fifteen grains bicarbonate of soda, or one Fairchild pep-
tonizing tube. The mixture is then brought to a blood
heat and maintained, with occasional stirring, at that
temperature thirty minutes, when one pint of milk is
added✪ Peptonized Oysters and the temperature kept up ten to twenty minutes.
Finally the mass is brought to a boiling point; strain and
serve. Gelatine may be added and the mixture served
cold as a jelly. Cooked tomatoes, onions, celery, or other
flavoring suited to individual tastes may be added at the
beginning of artificial digestion.
114 THE BLUE RIBBON COOK BOOK.
BEEF TEA.
Free a pound of lean beef from fat, tendon, cartilage,
bone, and vessels; chop up fine, put into a pint of cold
water for two hours. Simmer on the stove three hours✪ Beef Tea,
but do not boil. Make up for the water lost by adding
cold water so that a pint of beef tea represents one pound
of beef. Press the beef very carefully, and strain.
BEEF JUICE.
Cut a thin, juicy steak into pieces about one and one
half inches square. Sear separately one and one half
minutes, on each side, over a hot fire. Squeeze in a hot
lemon squeezer, flavor with salt and pepper✪ Beef Juice. May add
to milk, or pour on toast.
MEAT CURE.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Two cups of raw apple, two cups of water, two teaspoonfuls of corn starch, one and a half tablespoonfuls of sugar, one saltspoonful of cinnamon, and a bit of salt. Stew the apple in the water until it is very soft. Then mix together in a smooth paste the corn starch, sugar, salt, and cinnamon with a little cold water. Pour this into the apple and boil five minutes. Strain it and keep hot until ready to serve. May serve with cream if desired.
BEEF MINCE.
Have a pound of beef from the round. Free it from all sinews and fat. Mince it very fine. To two tablespoonfuls of butter in a saucepan put in the meat and a teaspoonful of onion juice. Stir for three or four minutes, or until the meat is hot through. Add salt and pepper, and if desired a little lemon juice. Serve on hot buttered toast.
FLAXSEED LEMONADE.
One tablespoonful of whole flaxseed, one pint of boiling water, lemon juice, and sugar. Pick over and wash the flaxseed, add water, and cook two hours, keeping just below the boiling point. Strain; add lemon juice and sugar to taste.
ORANGEADE.
Juice of 1 orange. 1} tablespoonfuls of syrup.
2 tablespoonfuls of crushed ice.
Make a syrup by boiling eight minutes one cup of water and half a cup of sugar. Mix the orange juice and the syrup, and pour over the crushed ice.
SHERRY NOG.
To the yelk of one egg thoroughly beaten add one tablespoonful of powdered sugar and two tablespoonfuls of sherry wine and a pint of whipped cream.
MILK PUNCH.
i cup milk. Sugar.
1 tablespoon whisky, rum, or Few gratings nutmeg,
brandy.
Mix ingredients, cover, and shake well.
COCOA CORDIAL.
1 teaspoon cocoa. J cup boiling water.
1 teaspoon sugar. 1J tablespoons port wine.
Mix cocoa and sugar, add enough of the water to form a paste. Stir in remainder of water and boil one minute, then add wine. Useful in cases of chill or exhaustion.
PEPTONIZED OYSTERS.
Mince six large or twelve small oysters. Add to them, in their own liquor, five grains extract of pancreas with fifteen grains bicarbonate of soda, or one Fairchild peptonizing tube. The mixture is then brought to a blood heat and maintained, with occasional stirring, at that temperature thirty minutes, when one pint of milk is added and the temperature kept up ten to twenty minutes. Finally the mass is brought to a boiling point; strain and serve. Gelatine may be added and the mixture served cold as a jelly. Cooked tomatoes, onions, celery, or other flavoring suited to individual tastes may be added at the beginning of artificial digestion.
BEEF TEA.
Free a pound of lean beef from fat, tendon, cartilage, bone, and vessels; chop up fine, put into a pint of cold water for two hours. Simmer on the stove three hours, but do not boil. Make up for the water lost by adding cold water so that a pint of beef tea represents one pound of beef. Press the beef very carefully, and strain.
BEEF JUICE.
Cut a thin, juicy steak into pieces about one and one half inches square. Sear separately one and one half minutes, on each side, over a hot fire. Squeeze in a hot lemon squeezer, flavor with salt and pepper. May add to milk, or pour on toast.
MEAT CURE.
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Apple SoupApple SoupBeef MinceFlaxseed LemonadeOranoadadeSherry NogMilk PunchCocoa CordialPeptonized OystersBeef TeaBeef Juice