Diet Lists Or Menus For The Sick - Convalescent's Diet
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This section is from the book "A Handbook Of Invalid Cooking", by Mary A. Boland. Also available from Amazon: Handbook of Invalid Cooking.
Diet Lists Or Menus For The Sick - Convalescent's Diet
Diet Lists Or Menus For The Sick
Diet for the sick may be divided into three kinds: Liquid, Light, and Convalescent's or Invalid's Diet.
Liquid diet consists entirely of liquids, of which milk is the most valuable. The meat broths (those made with beef, chicken, and mutton), oyster and clam broth, albumen water, eggs in the form of egg-nog, egg cream, and mulled wine, and tea and coffee are excellent. To this list may be added, as the patient shows signs of recovery, soft custards, and jellies made with wine, lemon, coffee, or orange-juice, which quickly become liquid when eaten.
A patient is given liquid diet during times of severe and dangerous illness. Usually the amount of food and intervals at which it is to be given are prescribed by the physician.
The following table may be of assistance to those who are without such aid:
First Day
Breakfast. Poached Egg on Toast. Cocoa.
Lunch. Milk-punch.
Dinner. Raw Oysters. Cream-crackers. Port Wine.
Lunch. 1 Cup of Hot Beef Broth.
Supper. Milk Toast. Wine Jelly. Tea.
Second Day
Breakfast
Soft-cooked Egg. Milk Toast. Coffee with Sugar and Cream.
Lunch.
1 Cup of Soft Custard.
Dinner.
Cream-of-celery Soup. Sippets. A little Barley Pudding, with Cream. Sherry Wine.
Lunch.
Milk-punch.
Supper. Water Toast, Buttered. Wine Jelly. Tea.
Third Day
Breakfast. Scrambled Egg. Cream Toast. Cocoa.
Lunch. 1 Cup of Hot Chicken Broth.
Dinner.
Chicken Panada. Bread. Port Wine. A little Tapioca Cream.
Lunch. An Egg-nog.
Supper.
Buttered Dry Toast. Baked Sweet Apples and Cream
Tea.
Fourth Day
Breakfast.
An Orange.
Farina Mush, with Cream and Sugar.
Poached Egg on Toast. Baked Potato. Cocoa.
Lunch. 1 Cup of Hot Soft Custard.
Dinner.
A small Piece of Beefsteak. Creamed Potatoes.
Baked Custard. Coffee.
Lunch. 1 Cup of Chicken Broth, with Rice.
Supper.
Raw Oysters. Banquet Crackers. Graham Bread, Toasted. Wine Jelly. Tea.
Fifth Day
Breakfast.
An Orange.
Coffee. Mush of Wheat Germ, with Cream and Sugar.
Broiled Mutton Chop. Toast.
Lunch. 1 Cup of Mulled Wine.
Dinner.
Chicken Soup. Bread.
Creamed Sweetbreads. Duchess Potato.
Snow Pudding. Cocoa.
Lunch. Siphon Soda, with Coffee Syrup and Cream.
Supper.
Buttered Dry Toast. Orange Jelly. Sponge Cake and Cream. Tea.
Convalescent's Diet
Convalescent's diet includes the liquid and light diets, and, in addition, all easily digested and nutritious food. For meats, game, especially venison and birds, beef, mutton, and chicken may be given, but never either pork or veal. They are difficult of digestion. Eggs in all ways, soft-cooked, scrambled, poached, and as omelets, well-baked potatoes, creamed potatoes, celery, snow pudding, cream of rice pudding, and tapioca cream, jellies, both those made from gelatine and fruits, Graham bread, Graham gems, rusk, and, in fact, any well-made bread, and good cake.
A convalescent may use for drinks plenty of good milk, cocoa, carefully made tea and coffee, occasionally good wine, and the different mineral and drinking waters. Some foods to be avoided are pastry, dark or badly made cakes, pork, veal, any highly seasoned meat dish made with gravy, all kinds of fried food, sausages, heavy puddings, badly made bread, lobsters and crabs.
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