This section is from the book "Scientific Feeding", by Mrs. Dora C. C. L. Roper. Also available from Amazon: Scientific feeding.
Soak one of Hansen's rennet tablets in a liltle cold water. Heat one quart of skim milk or fresh milk until it is luke-warm. Crush the tablet and mix with the milk, and stand on a warm place for 5 minutes or until it is thick. Then heat over the fire until the whey separates. Strain and throw away the curd.
Heat some fresh milk until it is blood-warm. Add Fair-child's essence of pepsin, according to directions.
Wash and let it soak for several hours, or over night. Boil for 10 minutes, strain through cheese-cloth, and add one-half or two-thirds of a cup of hot milk. Flavor as desired.
Wash some fresh green peas in the pods and grind through a meat grinder, allowing the liquid to drain into a bowl.
Heat a pint of fresh milk to about 2000 F., remove from the fire and squeeze into it the juice of one-half a lemon. Let stand for a few minutes, beat with a fork, and strain through a cheese-cloth. Serve hot or cold.
Add to the white of one fresh egg eight ounces of water and a little lemon juice or brandy, and shake thoroughly. Keep on lce.
Soak a cup of barley over night. Put to boil with two quarts of water, add a little salt and the skins of two or three apples, and a little sugar. Boil slowly for an hour or until it becomes red in color. Strain, and add lemon juice, if desired. Serve hot or cold.
Beat the whole of an egg with one-half a cup or less of water. Flavor with lemon juice.
Beat the yolk of an egg with one-half or a whole cup of water. Flavor with lemon juice.
Take some lemonade prepared from oranges and lemons and add to it the yolk or the whole of an egg. The acid taste must dominate the sweet taste.
Beat up the whole or the yolk of an egg with a little water and some brandy, sherry, cognac or whiskey, and one or two teaspoonsful of sugar. To this add eight to ten ounces of rich raw or sterilized milk, or one-half cream and one-half water. Flavor with nutmeg or bitter almond.
Boil some water with a little sugar and the rind of a lemon, orange or apple. Add to it some preserved strawberry, cherry, pineapple, currant or raspberry juice, and seltzer water, or add a mixture of several different fruit juices. This is excellent for fever patients, but not for people suffering with lung or heart diseases.
 
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