Two quarts of raspberries, one cup of sugar, one pint and a half of water, the juice
of a large lemon, one tablespoon of gelatine✪ Raspberry Sherbet. Mash the sugar and berries together and
let them stand two hours. Soak the gelatine in cold water to cover. Add one pint of
the water to the berries, and strain. Dissolve the gelatine in half the water, add this to
the strained mixture and freeze.
FOOD FOR THE SICK.
MILK.
When using milk in dishes for the sick, the disease of the persons \Vho are to consume the food should be
considered. Long boiling hardens the albumen and makes the milk constipating ; hence, if the patient be
already constipated, great care should be exercised not to allow the milk or cream to heat above the boiling
point; also one cannot use seasoning for a sick person that would suit a well person. More salt and acid can
and should be used in most cases when seasoning food for the sick, while less sugar or other sweet flavor
should be used. Do not send a too bountiful supply of food to the patient, nor set any one dish before him
frequently just because it has tasted especially good at first. We emphasize the desirability of serving all
dishes in the daintiest and most attractive ways, so as to induce an appetite which may be dormant.
GRUEL OF BOILED FLOUR.
Make a bag of white cotton cloth about six inches long, and four inches wide ; fill
it with white flour pressed down hard; tie up the bag firmly. Put it into boiling water ;
boil four hours✪ Gruel of Boiled Flour; take it out of the bag, remove the wet skin, and a hard white ball
will be left which, if kept in a dry place, will be good several months. Grate a little
of it, stir it up in a little milk or water, then cook it in boiling water or1 milk about four
minutes, stirring constantly. It is more palatable made with milk. This is excellent for
diarrhoea, but must be used cautiously at first, for it is medicine as well as food.
APPLE PIE FOR THE SICK.
Slice up one or more nice, tart apples, in a saucer, sweeten with white sugar, and cover
with a moderately thick slice of bread, buttered slightly on the underside; when the bread
is browned, the apples, if of a tender kind, and thinly sliced, will be done.
APPLE WATER.
One large juicy pippin, three cups of cold water✪ Apple Water — one quart if the apple is very large;
pare and quarter the apple, but do not core it; put it on the fire in a tin or porcelain
saucepan with the water, and boil, closely covered, until the apple stews to pieces;
strain the liquor at once, pressing the apple hard in the cloth; strain this again through
a finer bag, and set away to cool; sweeten with white sugar, and ice for drinking.
BEEF STEAK AND MUTTON CHOPS.
Choose the tenderest cuts and broil over a clear hot fire with your wisest skill. Let the
steak be rare, the chops well done. Salt and pepper; lay between two hot plates three
minutes, and serve to your patient. If he is very weak, do not let him swallow anything
except the juice, when he has chewed the meat well. The essence of rare beef, roasted
or broiled, thus expressed, is considered by some physicians to be more strengthening
than beef tea prepared in the usual manner.
BOILED RICE.
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Presented as published in 1891. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
Two quarts of raspberries, one cup of sugar, one pint and a half of water, the juice of a large lemon, one tablespoon of gelatine. Mash the sugar and berries together and let them stand two hours. Soak the gelatine in cold water to cover. Add one pint of the water to the berries, and strain. Dissolve the gelatine in half the water, add this to the strained mixture and freeze.
FOOD FOR THE SICK.
MILK.
When using milk in dishes for the sick, the disease of the persons who are to consume the food should be considered. Long boiling hardens the albumen and makes the milk constipating ; hence, if the patient be already constipated, great care should be exercised not to allow the milk or cream to heat above the boiling point; also one cannot use seasoning for a sick person that would suit a well person. More salt and acid can and should be used in most cases when seasoning food for the sick, while less sugar or other sweet flavor should be used. Do not send a too bountiful supply of food to the patient, nor set any one dish before him frequently just because it has tasted especially good at first. We emphasize the desirability of serving all dishes in the daintiest and most attractive ways, so as to induce an appetite which may be dormant.
GRUEL OF BOILED FLOUR.
Make a bag of white cotton cloth about six inches long, and four inches wide ; fill it with white flour pressed down hard; tie up the bag firmly. Put it into boiling water ; boil four hours; take it out of the bag, remove the wet skin, and a hard white ball will be left which, if kept in a dry place, will be good several months. Grate a little of it, stir it up in a little milk or water, then cook it in boiling water or milk about four minutes, stirring constantly. It is more palatable made with milk. This is excellent for diarrhoea, but must be used cautiously at first, for it is medicine as well as food.
APPLE PIE FOR THE SICK.
Slice up one or more nice, tart apples, in a saucer, sweeten with white sugar, and cover with a moderately thick slice of bread, buttered slightly on the underside; when the bread is browned, the apples, if of a tender kind, and thinly sliced, will be done.
APPLE WATER.
One large juicy pippin, three cups of cold water — one quart if the apple is very large; pare and quarter the apple, but do not core it; put it on the fire in a tin or porcelain saucepan with the water, and boil, closely covered, until the apple stews to pieces; strain the liquor at once, pressing the apple hard in the cloth; strain this again through a finer bag, and set away to cool; sweeten with white sugar, and ice for drinking.
BEEF STEAK AND MUTTON CHOPS.
Choose the tenderest cuts and broil over a clear hot fire with your wisest skill. Let the steak be rare, the chops well done. Salt and pepper; lay between two hot plates three minutes, and serve to your patient. If he is very weak, do not let him swallow anything except the juice, when he has chewed the meat well. The essence of rare beef, roasted or broiled, thus expressed, is considered by some physicians to be more strengthening than beef tea prepared in the usual manner.
BOILED RICE.
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