Calves' Feet Broth

2 calves' feet.

2 quarts cold water.

1 egg, beaten up with two tablespoonfuls milk for each cupful of broth. Pepper and salt.

Boil the feet to shreds; strain the liquor through a 22 double muslin bag; season to taste, and set by for use, as you need it. Warm by the small quantity, allowing to each cupful a beaten egg and two tablespoonfuls of milk. Give a good boil up to cook these, and serve with thin, crisp toast. If the patient can take it, a dash of lemon-juice improves the broth.

Toast Water+

Slices of toast, nicely browned, without a symptom of burning. Enough boiling water to cover them.

Cover closely, and let them steep until cold. Strain the water, sweeten to taste, and put a piece of ice in each glassful. If the physician thinks it safe, add a little lemon-juice.

Apple Water+

1 large juicy pippin, the most finely-flavored you can get. 3 cups of cold water - 1 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.

It is a refreshing and palatable drink.

Jelly Water+

1 large teaspoonful currant or cranberry jelly. 1 goblet ice-water.

Beat up well for a fever-patient.

Wild cherry or blackberry jelly is excellent, prepared in like manner for those suffering with summer complaint.

Flax-seed Lemonade+

4 tablespoonfuls flax-seed (whole.) 1 quart boiling water poured upon the flax-seed. Juice of two lemons, leaving out the peel. Sweeten to taste.

Steep three hours in a covered pitcher. If too thick, put in cold water with the lemon-juice and sugar. Ice for drinking.

It is admirable for colds.

Slippery-Elm Bark Tea

Break the bark into bits, pour boiling water over it, cover and let it infuse until cold. Sweeten, ice, and take for summer disorders, or add lemon-juice and drink for a bad cold.

Apple Toddy+

Boil a large juicy pippin in a quart of water, and when it has broken to pieces strain off the water. While it is still boiling-hot, add a glass of fine old whiskey, a little lemon-juice, and sweeten to taste.

Take hot at bed-time for influenza.

Milk Punch+

1 tumbler of milk, well sweetened.

2 tablespoonfuls best brandy, well stirred in.

I have known very sick patients to be kept alive for days at a time by this mixture, and nothing else, until Nature could rally her forces. Give very cold with ice.

Egg and Milk Punch+

Is made by the preceding receipt, with an egg beaten very light with the sugar, and stirred in before the brandy is added.

Iceland or Irish Moss Lemonade+

1 handful Irish or Iceland moss, washed in five waters.

2 quarts boiling water, poured upon the moss, and left until cold.

2 lemons, peeled and sliced, leaving out the peel. Sweeten very well and ice.

Do not strain, and if it thicken too much, add cold water.

Excellent for feverish colds and all pulmonary troubles.