The Edwardsville cook book

Soak prunes over night in cold water. Next morning add enough cold water to cover prunes, then stew slowly for an hour or two, adding water from time to time to keep them covered. Rub through sieve, add i tablespoon molasses to i pint of prune pulp, stew again hour. Given in tablespoon doses each morning. MINT WATER. Mrs. J. A. Lindquist. Roiling water pint ; green spearmint leaves a handful. Bruise the leaves, put into a dish, cover with boiling water; steep 15 minutes. Drink hot or cold. Good in nausea. FLAXSEED LEMONADE. Mrs. J. L. Trinkhaus. Over 4 tablespoons of flaxseed pour i quart boiling water. Let steep 4 hours. Strain through a piece of linen ; add sugal and lemon juice to taste. This is very soothing in colds. A FOOD .USED IN DIPTHERIA. (Erom Rules used in Hahnemann Hospital, Chicago. Contributed by Mrs. J. A. Lindquist). Take oatmeal, cook half a day, put through sieve, add to pulp a tiny bit of salt. Keep cool; from time to time take a little of this and thin a very little, leaving it somewhat pulpy. This will “slide down the swollen throat as nothing else.” Semi-liquids are easier to swallow than liquids. Add a little cornstarch to milk or cocoa and it can be more easily taken by the patient. TOAST WATER. Mrs. J. L. Trinkhaus. Toast pint of bread crumbs very brown. Pour cold water over them, let stand for i hour ; strain and add cream and sugar to taste! The nourishment in the l^read is easily ab* sorbed when taken in the liquid form. RICE WATER. Mrs. J. A. Lindquist. 2 tablespoons rice. • Pinch of salt. 1 quart water. Boil for 3 hours, adding water from time to time, so there will be I quart rice water when done. COFFEE AND EGG. Mrs. J. A. Lindquist. Make strong cup coffee ; add boiling milk and sweeten well Pour over a well-beaten egg in the cup in which you are going to serve it. This will often sustain a patient when nothing else can be taken. Serena Clay. Break an egg into a cup ; beat it well, then slowly fill the cup with hot tea, stirring all the while. Add sugar to taste. CURRANT JELLY. Red or black currant jelly, dissolved in hot or cold water or tamarind tea, make excellent invalid beverages. SLIPPERY-ELM TEA. Mrs. J. L. Trinkhaus. Pour I cup of boiling water over i teaspoon of slippery-elni bark. When cold, strain and add lemon juice and sugar to taste. Good in case of inflammation of the mucous membrane of the throat. EGG WATER. Mrs. H. S. Oyler. Stir, without beating, the white of i fresh egg in half pint of ice cold water. This makes a very palatable and nourishing drink for fever patients. ICED ORANGE JUICE. Mrs. J. L. T. Make a syrup of i cup of sugar and cup of water. Boil together lo minutes ; set aside to cool. Mix pint orange juice and a gill of lemon juice ; add cold syrup. Fill glass to brim with shaved ice and pour the orange mixture upon it. ORANGE ALBUMEN. Sister Caroline of the Deaconess Hospital. Take juice of i orange, i teaspoon sugar and the white of I egg. Put together in a shaker with a little ice and shake well. LEMON ALBUMEN. Sister Caroline. Juice of Y2 lemon. 2 tablespoons sugar. 1/4 glass water. White of 1 egg. Make as above. LEMONADE, EFFERVESCING.