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Mix the flour with a little cold water, and add to the boiling water. Boil until transparent, and pour into cups or small molds. For a patient with summer complaint, flavor by boiling a stick of cinnamon in it. For a fever patient add the juice of quarter of a lemon. Dr. Gaunt's Rice Jelly. Take four tablespoonfuls of rice, and boil it hard in three pints of water for twenty minutes. Let simmer for two hours. Then force through fine hair strainer, and allow it to cool. Place in an ice chest over night. DIRECTIONS FOR USE. Dissolve two tablespoonfuls of the rice jelly in each one-half pint of milk. Rice Water for Drink. One quart of boiling water ; a pinch of salt ; one tablespoonful of rice or rice flour. Boil half an hour, and strain. Toast Water. Toast two slices of bread very brown, but do not scorch. Put in a pitcher, and while hot pour on one quart of cold water. Let it stand half an hour, and it is ready for use. Crust Coffee. Two thick slices of graliam or Boston brown bread toasted as brown as possible. Pour on one pint of boiling water, and steep ten minutes. Serve with milk and sugar, like coffee. Beef Juice. Broil a thick piece of beef steak three minutes. Squeeze all the juice with a lemon-squeezer into a cup ; salt very lightly and give like beef tea. Jelly and Ice. Break ice in bits no bigger than a pea. A large pin will break off bits from a lump very easily. To a tablespoonful add one of wine jelly broken up. It is very refreshing in fever. Panada. Lay in a bowl two Boston or graham crackers split; sprinkle on a pinch of salt, and cover with boiling water. Set the bowl in a saucepan of boiling water, and let it stand half an hour, till the crackers look clear. Slide into a hot saucer without breaking, and eat with cream and sugar. As the}^ are only good hot, do just enough for the patient's appetite at one time. Milk Toast. Toast one or two thin slices of bread ; dip quickly in a little salted boiling water, and spread on a little butter. Boil a teacupful of milk ; thicken with a teaspoonful of flour mixed in a little cold water with a pinch of salt ; lay the toast in a small, hot, deep plate, and pour over the milk. Cream toast is made in the same way. Beef Sandwich. Two or three tablespoonfuls of raw, very tender beef, scraped fine, and spread between two slices of slightly buttered bread. Sprinkle on pepper and salt. Prepared Flour. Tie a pint of flour tightly in a cloth, and boil for four hours. Scrape ofl" the outer crust, and the inside will be found to be a dry ball. Grate this as required, allowing one tablespoonful wet in cold milk to a pint of boiling milk, and boiling till smooth. Add a saltspoonful of salt. This is excellent for summer complaint, whether in adults or children. The beaten white of an egg can also be stirred in if ordered. If this porridge is used from the beginning of the complaint, little or no medicine will be required. Parched Rice. Roast to a deep brown as you would coffee, and then cook as in rule for boiled rice, p. 199, and eat with cream and sugar. Rice Coffee. Parch as above, and grind. Allow half a cup to a quart of boiling water, and let it steep fifteen minutes. Strain, and drink plain, or with milk and sugar. Herb Teas.