This section is from the book "Scientific Feeding", by Mrs. Dora C. C. L. Roper. Also available from Amazon: Scientific feeding.
Prepare some apple sauce from dried or fresh apples, run through a colander; when cool, mix with the snow of whites of eggs. Serve with zwieback.
Prepare Same As Apple Snow.
Wash some dried apricots thoroughly, cut into small pieces, soak over night, then simmer slowly until soft. Run through a colander and add a piece of fresh butter while warm. Serve with French toast, corn bread, corn cakes, steamed puddings or omelet; also good with fish and meats, especially fat meats.
Remove the stems, wash the berries and pour some boiling water on them. Let stand 5 minutes; then pour off the water and add fresh boiling water, a stick of cinnamon and the necessary amount of sugar. Thicken with cornstarch. Serve with unleavened pancakes.
Prepare the gooseberries in the same manner as for compot, but use more water. When done, strain and thicken with cornstarch. Let boil 10 to 15 minutes. Serve hot or cold with cream.
Wash a pint of blackberries, put on to cook with about two pints of boiling water and a stick of cinnamon. Let simmer slowly and add a few tablespoons of sugar. When nearly done thicken with a little cornstarch. Cool and serve with milk rice, custard or pancakes.
Prepare the same as stewed blackberries. Strain, if desired.
Wash some tart apples, wipe and core them. Have some vegetable oil, goose grease or lard boiling hot, drop in the apples and cook until tender. Let cool and reheat when needed.
Soak a half cup of instantaneous tapioca with a half cup of water for 10 minutes. Bring a cup of water and a cup of beer with a stick of cinnamon to a boil, stir in the tapioca, let boil to minutes, add sugar and salt. Then remove from the fire, add three to five tablespoonsful of fresh hot cream and serve. A piece of butter and the yolk of an egg can. serve as substitute for the cream. Serve with zwieback.
Prepare as the foregoing, from apple cider or unfermented apple juice. Serve with cream or with butter and the yolk of an egg. Hot or cold. Serve with zwieback or wafers.
Use one cup of strained tomato juice to one of water. Prepare as the above. Serve with cream and zwieback.
Cook one quart of raspberries or blackberries with two quarts of water, a piece of cinnamon, add three-fourths to one cup of sugar, let boil slowly, then, strain and cool. Reheat and prepare with instantaneous tapioca. Pour on a soup plate, pour sterilized cream over it. In cold weather, the cream as well as the tapioca should be served warm.
Wash the stalks and cut off the green end. Cut the remainder in small pieces and steep in earthenware with a stick of cinnamon. When tender, strain and add the necessary amount of sugar. Dissolve some cornstarch, arrowroot or agar-agar with cold water and stir into the fruit juice. Let boil 10 minutes and serve warm on soup-plates with sterilized cream or put into molds and cool. If it is eaten warm, it is preferable to let the fruit juice cool first, then reheat and add the thickenmg.
 
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