Compound Barley Water

2 pints barley water.

2 ounces figs (sliced).

5 drachms licorice root (sliced).

2 1/2 ounces raisins (seeded). 1 pint soft water.

For barley water (see above).

Boil all together until you have two pints of liquid. Then strain.

Omit the licorice if the patient dislikes it. Good in cases of soreness, and good for a cold on the lungs.

Flour Gruel Or Thickened Milk

1 cupful boiling water.

1 cupful boiling milk.

1/3 teaspoonful salt.

2 teaspoonfuls flour.

Boil the water, milk and salt together. Rub the flour very smooth in enough cold water to cover it, and add to that which is boiling. Stir well, and boil half an hour. Then serve hot. It may be made of milk alone, but is then too hearty for many sick persons. Good for diarrhoea, especially if made with part water.

Arrowroot Gruel

Rub two teaspoonfuls Bermuda arrowroot to a smooth paste, in enough cold water to cover it. Pour on it one cupful boiling water, stirring fast. Add salt, and boil for a minute. Serve hot with lemon juice and sugar, if allowed. Or, it may be made with milk instead of water. This is used in cases of diarrhoea, and is easily digested.

Corn Meal Gruel

1 quart boiling water. 1/2 teaspoonful salt.

1/2 cupful corn meal.

Make like Flour Gruel, but boil one full hour.

Raisin Gruel

1/3 cupful raisins. 1 pint water. 1 pint milk.

A pinch of salt.

1 tablespoonful sugar.

l 1/2 tablespoonfuls flour.

Boil the raisins in the water until it is reduced one half. Then pour into a bag and squeeze. When cold stir the juice thus obtained into the milk. Boil with the salt and sugar. Thicken with the flour, and boil all together half an hour. Serve hot.

If the raisins are stoned, cut in halves and served in the gruel, it is called Plum Porridge.

Caudle

2 cupfuls "Rice Water."

1 eggs (yolk only). 1 tablespoonful sugar. 1 wineglassful wine. A little grated nutmeg.

Pour the rice water boiling hot upon the egg, beaten with the sugar and wine, stirring it in gradually, so as not to curdle. Then add the nutmeg.

Rice Water

Boil very little rice in plenty of water, salted slightly. When the water becomes a little thick and tastes strongly of the rice, strain it off and serve hot or cold.

For diarrhoea or feeble digestion.

Food for a Delicate Infant. (Dr. Meigs, Philadelphia.)

17 3/4 drachms pure "milk-sugar." 1 pint hot water.

Dissolve the sugar in the water. Mix together 3 tablespoonfuls of this liquid. 2 tablespoonfuls cream.

1 tablespoonful milk.

2tablespoonfuls lime water.

Warm the mixture, and the food is ready. The cream should not be very rich. If the child cannot digest milk, substitute "Whey." When the child is older, double the quantity without changing the proportion. If less is required, measure with a teaspoon.

The "milk-sugar" can be obtained at a druggist's. The seventeen and three quarters drachms are of "Apothecary's Weight."It keeps well, when dry, for an indefinite time; but when dissolved it sours in a day or two. The whey will keep for a day or two. This is excellent.