Eggnog

Beat in a tumbler the white of one egg to a stiff froth, then add the yolk and beat it with the white. Sweeten a glass of wine with loaf-sugar, beat it in the egg, and grate a little nutmeg on the top. This is strengthening for a convalescent. A tablespoonful of milk may be added if preferred.

Custard

Beat up two eggs, stir them in half a pint of milk, sweeten to your taste; set it in a pan of boiling water; stir until it begins to thicken, then flavor with a spoonful of extract of vanilla or peach-water, and set it in a cool place.

Wine Whey

Boil a pint of new milk, pour in it whilst boiling a large wineglass of Sherry or Madeira wine; let it boil up. When it separates, take it from the fire. Let it stand a few minutes, and then strain it through a tin strainer or thin muslin. When cool, sweeten to your taste.

Chocolate

For a single cup of chocolate, grate a dessertspoonful of cho-colate; dissolve it in half a cup of boiling water; bring to a boil a cup of rich milk, stir in the chocolate when thoroughly melted, boil up three minutes, pour out, and serve.

For One Cup Of Coffee

A tablespoonful of ground coffee, pour boiling water over it in a tin cup; let it stand on the range (but not to boil) for five minutes. Pour off clear into a cup, with sugar and cream.

Rye Mush

Mix into a paste with cold water four tablespoonsful of rye flour, stir it into a pint of boiling water; boil twenty minutes, stirring frequently. To be eaten with cream and sugar, or cream and salt.

Oatmeal Mush

Stir into a cup of cold water a teacup of oatmeal, put a pint of boiling water into it and cook slowly for half an hour. Eaten with cream and sugar or salt. A larger quantity will require an hour to cook. If in a farina-boiler, which is the right way to prepare it, boil it longer.

Flour Ball

Tie in a thick cloth a bowl of flour as tightly as possible, drop it into a pot of cold water, bring to a boil and boil it steadily for three hours. Hang it up out of doors without opening it. In twenty-four hours it will be ready for use. Peel off the outside crust; grate it as you need it; mix into a paste with cold water, and stir it into boiling milk; a tablespoonful will thicken a pint. This is given to infants in their second summer.

Flaxseed Tea

Put a tablespoonful of flaxseed into a pitcher and pour over it a quart of boiling water; cover it and set in a warm place to steep for an hour; then add to it the juice of a large lemon and a few strips of the peel cut off thin with a sharp knife; sweeten with white sugar to your taste. Drink a tumbler of it on going to bed for a cold.

Beef Tea

Out a pound of lean juicy beef into small dice; put on it a pint of cold water, and let it stand half an hour or more; then put it in a closely-covered sauce-pan and let it heat on the range (but not boil) for twenty minutes; then bring it forward and boil for six minutes. Strain off and season with pepper and salt. This is the best way of making beef tea.

Tapioca

Wash half a cup of tapioca and soak it in cold water to cover it for two hours; then stir it in a pint of boiling water, and simmer until thoroughly dissolved. If too thick, add boiling water. Sweeten it when poured out; add a little wine or brandy and grate over it a little nutmeg; or it may be served with sugar only.

For Dyspepsia

Take a teaspoonful of dry bran after every meal. This is a simple remedy and a very excellent one.

Another Remedy For Dyspepsia

Dissolve as much chlorate of potash as will lie on a three-cent piece in a wine-glass of water, stir it until every little crystal is dissolved, and take it after meals, or for a sour taste in the mouth. Also good for a headache.

For A Cold

Forty grains of chlorate of potash in six powders; put one powder in a tumbler two-thirds full of water, and take a table-spoonful every two hours for a cold. For a sore throat, add two tablespoonsful of claret and use it for a gargle.

Soda Mint

One teaspoonful of spirits of hartshorn, one and a half tea-spoonsful of bicarbonate of soda, the same of mint water, and six ounces of soft water. Put half the water on the soda, hot but not boiling. When dissolved, add the remainder of the water cold and the other ingredients. Procure a six-ounce vial to mix it in, which will determine the quantity of water to be used. Dose - a dessert spoonful after meals, for indigestion