Sago Jelly

Wash 1 large tablespoonful of sago, soak one hour, boil it in ½ cupful of water; with a pinch of salt, and a stick cinnamon until the grains grow clear; rind of lemon may be substituted for the cinnamon. Then add 1 pint of boiling milk, or milk and water, boil all together, sweeten and set away to cool.

Sago Padding

Wash a teacupful of sago, put in the pudding-dish and pour on 1 quart of boiling water, stirring all the time; add a pinch of salt and 2 tablespoonfuls of sugar. Prepare it two or three hours before baking, or even over night. Bake slowly one hour. Serve with sugar and butter. This will answer for convalescents.

Calf's Foot Jelly

See Jelly. ½ capful of Madeira wine may be added when it is especially for invalids. For recipe, see page 342.

Cracker Soup

Put a bit of butter, the size of a hickory-nut, in a bowl, sprinkle in pepper and salt enough to make it palatable; break in crackers as for oyster soup, and turn on boiling water until the dish is filled. This is a substitute for oyster soup, and is a very nice dish. Use as much pepper as possible, if the disease is a sore throat. A person in perfect health will relish this dish.

Bread Panada

Put 1 ounce of stale bread, cut or crumbed, in a bowl. Pour over it ½ pint of boiling water, let stand an hour, sweeten slightly with white sugar. Wine and nutmeg to taste may be added under the advice of a physician.

Crackers may be used instead of bread, or the bread may be toasted.

Chicken Jelly

Cut ½ an uncooked chicken in small pieces and break the bones. Pour over it 1 quart of water and boil slowly until it is reduced to less than half. Season with salt, a little pepper and mace (if the latter be allowed). Strain through a jelly-bag into a mold. When the jelly has hardened, scrape off the layer of fat at the top, turn it upon a fancy dish. If the taste of the patient will permit, it may be sweetened with loaf sugar, and flavored with lemon juice.

Cracker Dessert

Put 8 soda or 10 milk crackers into a deep dish and pour on boiling water to cover. Let stand until the water is absorbed, grate over them nutmeg and white sugar, adding sufficient milk to make a nice sauce.

Cracker And Orange Juice

This is the most refreshing and cooling nutriment that can be given a fever patient. Crumb crackers into a dish and turn orange juice over them.

Beef Tea

1 pound of lean beef (not one scrap of fat must be admitted) cut in small bits and put in a wide-mouthed bottle without water; cork closely, set in a kettle of cold water, bring to a boil and keep boiling for three or four hours, until the meat in the bottle is like white rags. Press out the juice and season with a little salt and, if permitted, a suspicion of pepper. This is pure.

One way to beguile an invalid into taking more beef tea than he is willing to, is to add gelatine to it and let it cool in a mold. When it is hard and like jelly serve it with salt and wafers.