An Excellent Drink For A Cough

Beat up two eggs with half a pint of milk, warmed, two tab!espoonfuls of capillaire, and the same of rose-water.

It must not be warmed after the egg is added, or it will curdle.

Linseed Drink

Pour over a teaspoonful of linseed, or more if required thicker for a cough, a quart of boiling water; the whole or half the peel of a lemon and two or three pieces of sugar-candy are to be added, and the whole left to stand in a covered jug till cold.

Clarified Milk Whey

To six pints of milk add enough rennet to turn it; leave it to make in a warm place; press out the whey, and strain; clarify it by adding the whites of three eggs, and half a drachm of cream-of-tartar; boil, and filter through paper.

Brandy Mixture

A gill of brandy, the same quantity of cinnamon water, beaten up with the yolks of two eggs and half an ounce of pounded sugar. This is a valuable restorative in cases of extreme exhaustion. A tablespoonful or two should be given at intervals of from ten to fifteen minutes.

Egg Cordial

A tablespoonful of cream, the white of a very fresh egg, and a tablespoonful of brandy; whip first the egg nearly to a froth, then the cream with the egg; add the brandy by degrees, and mix well; do not let it stand after it is made. This is very nourishing, and so light, it will remain in the stomach when nothing else will. The receipt was given to me by the late Professor Miller of Edinburgh.

For A Weak Digestion

Beat up in a basin a fresh-laid egg, add six tablespoon-fuls of cold water, then two of potato-flour; mix it thoroughly with the water and egg, and pour as much boiling water over it as will make into a jelly, stirring it well. This is useful in all cases of stomachic debility; it is light, wholesome, and nourishing. It may be eaten for breakfast with the addition of a little milk and sugar.

Lait De Poule

Is simply the yolk of an egg well beat, then carefully adding to it by degrees boiling water, stirring it all the time to prevent its curdling. It should be sweetened with sugar-candy. For a cold, a spoonful of wine or rum may be added to it, or it may be made with beef-tea instead of water, which makes it very nourishing.

Cordial For The Weak

Add a pint of wine to a quart of barley-gruel; boil it down to one-third; add lemon-peel or any seasoning preferred. A teacupful taken several times a-day is very strengthening.

Cordial For An Invalid

Half a pint of the best French brandy, boiled with as much coarse brown sugar as the brandy will imbibe, till it becomes about the consistency of treacle. Boiling the brandy takes away its heating qualities; and this receipt, taken frequently in small quantities, has been found of the greatest use to consumptive persons.