Mazdaznan encyclopedia of dietetics and home cook book

Made by infusing dried or green stalks, leaves or bark in boiling water; let stand until cold and sweeten to taste. If desired hot, steep for three minutes, then serve. Use cream, sugar or lemon juice. TEA DRINKS are most beneficial at night, and shortly before retiring to bed. Linden blossoms and elder blossoms used occasionally, with either lemon juice or a little cream, will prove a wholesome drink. SLIPPERY-ELM BARK TEA. Over a handful of broken bark pour one quart boiling water; cover and let stand until cold. Add lemon juice if desired and sweeten to taste. BRAN TEA. Slightly brown a quantity of bran in slow oven. Use four tablespoonfuls to one quart water. Boil ten minutes. Serve same as tea, with or without cream and sugar. By adding white of egg, flavor will be greatly improved. BRAN DRINK. Put one-half pint bran in earthenware vessel, over which pour two quarts cold water; stir well and set in the sun for two to three hours. Strain thru linen cloth and set in cool place, when it will be ready for use. Fruit juices may be added, but as a nervine it is better plain. Used with wild cherry cordial or grape jelly it will prove refreshing to invalids. TOAST WATER. Toast two slices wheat bread in moderate oven until well browned. Break in small pieces and put in graniteware coffee-pot, pour over two quarts boiling water and simmer five minutes. Serve with cream and sugar to taste. BARLEY WATER. Boil two ounces of pearl barley in one-half pint water forty-five minutes, then add two quarts boiling water and a few chopped figs and seeded raisins. Boil thirty minutes, and strain ; add a little lemon juice and sweeten to taste. FLAXSEED LEMONADE. Over four tablespoonfuls whole flaxseed pour one quart boiling water, add juice of two lemons; let steep three hours, keeping closely covered. Sweeten to taste with rock candy. Excellent for colds. BRAN LEMONADE. As a summer drink nothing will be found more refreshing than bran lemonade. It is made as follows: To one-half pint bran add one quart water, and let stand for one-half hour in a cool place. Pour off water and add the juice of four lemons; sweeten to taste with powdered sugar. The phosphates of the bran, which have been absorbed by the water, quickly revive the fagged-out brain and nerves and relieve that "tired feeling;" besides the acid of the lemon is very cooling to the blood in hot weather. ONION GRUEL. To one sliced onion and one tablespoonful of bran or rolled wheat, a dash of salt, add one pint of milk. Allow it to come to a boiling point and continue to simmer for fifteen minutes. Eat as hot as can be borne, and shortly before retiring to bed. RICE WATER. Take two tablespoonfuls of rice; wash it well, and put in jug, adding one good stick of cinnamon and one quart of hot boiling water. Cover well. As soon as cold, it will be ready to serve. May be used with lemon or any other juice to good advantage. If desired, the rice may be boiled slowly for an hour and then strained. CURRANT DRINK. Dissolve one teaspoonful of currant jelly in a glass of cold water, properly filtered. Add chipped ice, the slice of an orange and half of a slice of pineapple. This makes a healthful summer drink.