Mazdaznan encyclopedia of dietetics and home cook book

Make your own buttermilk, a drink most desirable for convalescents. It is refreshing and cooling in winter and occasionally in summer. Take one pint of milk, stir it continuously while dropping little by little the juice of one lemon. In beating vigorously, the milk, although curdling, will be smooth. You can flavor with any fruit juice. COLD TEA OR COFFEE. Take unroasted, sun-dried coffee berries, grind them fine and to every cupful of water use one tablespoonful. Set aside for half an hour or more. Strain thru cheesecloth or flannel. May be used with cream for medicinal purposes with good results. In preparing Russian or Oriental tea in general proceed the same as with coffee. Take two teaspoonfuls of tea to one-half cupful of water. Set aside for thirty minutes. Add any desired quantity of water, milk or cream, and strain immediately thereafter. Tea or coffee may be soaked in milk if desired. COCOANUT DRINKS. Take the milk of cocoanut and dilute with an equal quantity of water or sweet milk and pour over two tablespoonfuls of finely-ground blanched peanuts. Set aside for several hours or over night. In the morning strain it well. Drink it freely. Instead of cocoanut milk grate fresh cocoanut fine and pour enough of lemon juice over it to cover well. Set aside for hours. Then mash it all fine and add any desired quantity of water, straining it several times. It is very wholesome and may be used with milk instead of water. BARLEY JOY. Grind coarse two cupfuls of barley, add one cupful oatmeal and two quarts of water or sweet milk. Allow to stand for three hours before using. BREAD. DAILY BREAD. Take one cupful of whole wheat and run it thru a grinder coarsely. Next grind one-half cupful of raw peanuts and one-fourth cupful of pitted dried prunes. Cream peanuts and prunes with the flour separately, then mix these together and eat dry. Will aid in regular habits and cure ailments of the bowels if eaten daily for several weeks alternated with some of the following dishes. Use at one meal a day only. SUN-BAKED BREAD. Take coarse ground flour, moisten it with a little oil and more water, use very little or no salt, or salt the oil before adding it to the flour. Knead and beat the dough in a shady place. While beating add, or better still, spray water over the dough gradually. When light in consistency, make into thin layers the size of wafers. Heat some iron plates or pans in the sun and spread upon them oiled paper and on that put the cakes. Set out in the scorching sun and let them bake all day. This bread will keep almost indefinitely if kept in tins and in a dry place. Should the layers ever become soft immediately retake them. Eaten with fruit this bread not only acts on the bowels, but is one of the best remedial agents to cure constipation. Soft boiled eggs may be used in connection with this bread to hasten a cure. Raw peanuts ground into the flour will prove good results, while "'lungers" ought to add pine nuts. Hard working people should use Brazil nuts or chestnuts with this bread. Brain workers will fare best by adding almonds and raisins to the bread. FORCE BREAD. Grindl in a mill one-half cupful of vv'hole wheat, one teaspoonful each of pearl barley and rye. Mix with two table-