Milk Lemonade

1½ cupfuls of white sugar dissolved in one • quart of boiling water. Add ½ pint of lemon juice, and lastly 1½ pints of boiling milk. Drink hot as possible just before retiring. Good for colds. Under some circumstances ¼ of a pint of the milk may be omitted and ¼ pint of sherry added. If the patient is reduced in strength this will be an improvement.

Hot Lemonade

Make the same as cold lemonade, using boiling hot water in place of cold water. In case of a severe cold drink warm as possible just before retiring.

Egg Wine

Beat up a fresh egg until smooth and thick; add a teaspoonful of powdered loaf sugar; stir in a glass of best port wine. This, when permitted, is very strengthening.

Egg Nog

Beat the yolk of an egg in a tumbler with 2 teaspoonfuls brandy and the same of sugar measured even. Beat the white of the egg to a stiff froth, mix thoroughly with the yolk and fill the glass with milk. Some patients cannot take egg and must have brandy and milk alone. Others take brandy and egg without milk, while the larger number take egg and milk alone.

Egg Cream

Beat a raw egg to a stiff froth, add 1 table-spoonful white sugar and ½ glassful of home-made blackberry or black cherry wine; beat well, add ½ glassful of cream, beat thoroughly and use at once. This is a full meal for an invalid, and is particularly good when trouble of mouth, throat or stomach prevents use of solid food.

Water Gruel

Mix 2 tablespoonfuls Indian meal and 1 of wheat flour, with enough cold water to make smooth. Indian meal alone may be used if preferred. If the gruel is liked thick, stir this mixture into 1 pint of boiling water. If wished thinner more water will be necessary. Season the gruel with salt and let boil six or eight minutes, stirring frequently; take from the fire, put in a piece of butter the size of a walnut, add sugar and nutmeg, if wished, and turn over toasted bread cut in dice. A couple dozen of raisins boiled in the gruel will improve the flavor. They need not be eaten. Very nice for a cold.

Caudle

Make a water gruel as above, or a Rice Caudle. Strain it and add a wineglassful of wine or brandy, sweeten with loaf sugar and grate in a little nutmeg.

Rice Caudle

This is an excellent remedy where a sudden change has brought on a relaxed condition of the system.

Soak some rice for an hour in cold water, drain it; put 2 tablespoonfuls of the rice into 1 pint or more of new milk. Simmer until it will pulp through a sieve. Put pulp and milk in a saucepan with a bruised clove, a bit of stick cinnamon and loaf sugar to taste. Simmer eleven minutes longer. If too thick add a little milk. ' Serve with exceedingly thin strips of dry toast.

Milk Porridge

This can be varied so that an invalid will not weary of it quickly. Put 1 dozen raisins in 2 cupfuls of milk (they need not be eaten, but flavor the porridge). Boil the milk five minutes, then thicken lightly with wheat flour. If the patient is quite ill very little thickening is required. Wet the flour smoothly with a little cold milk and pour into the boiling milk. Add a bit of butter. Nutmeg and sugar will please some palates, while others will not tolerate them, or even the raisin flavor.