Meal Porridge

10,156

Boil some coarse meal, stirring occasionally, until the mass is reduced to a jelly (which will take some hours), then strain through muslin, and to the liquid portion strained off, add sugar to sweeten it; again boil to dissolve the sugar, stirring well the whole time to prevent burning; when the sugar is well dissolved, it is ready for use.

Recommended for infantile constipation.

- Dr. J. R. Seymour.

Milk, Baked

10,157. Bake two quarts of milk for eight or ten hours in a moderate oven, in a jar covered with writing paper tied down. It will then be as thick as cream, and may be used by weak persons.

Milk And Cinnamon Drink. 1

0,158

Boil in one pint of new milk sufficient cinnamon to flavor it pleasantly, and sweeten with white sugar. This may be taken cold, with a teaspoonful of brandy, and is very good in cases of diarrhoea. Children may take it milk warm, without the brandy.

Milk And Egg

10,159. Add a pint of good milk to a well beaten fresh egg, a pint of cold water, and salt to make it palatable; let it come to a boil quickly (if heated slowly it is apt to curd, and if so it is useless), stirring all the time; as soon as it comes to a boil, it is cooked sufficiently. Can be given in all forms of sickness of the stomach, and an admirable drink for infants suffering with choleraic diarrhoea.

Milk For Infants. 1

0,160

Take of cows milk one part, water two parts, loaf sugar as much as may be agreeable. These proportions may be altered as the child advances in age.

Peptonized Milk

10,161

Dissolve five grains of pancreatin with twenty grains of bicarbonate of sodium in one ounce of warm water, adding to it a pint of milk, and keeping at a temperature of no0 F. for one hour. Give the milk not longer than twenty or thirty minutes after it has been acted upon by the ferment.

Milk Porridge

10,162. Stir two tablespoonfuls of oat meal into a pint of milk, then stir quickly into a pint of boiling water, and boil until it thickens, stirring constantly.

Milk And Soda Water

10,163. Heat a teacupful of milk almost to boiling, dissolve in it a teaspoonful of white sugar, pour into a large tumbler, and add two-thirds of a bottle of good soda water.

Milk, Egg, And Brandy. 1

0,164

Scald some new milk, but do not let it boil. It ought to be put into a jug, and the jug should stand in boiling water, when the surface looks filmy, it is sufficiently done, and should be put away in a cool place in the same vessel. When quite cold, beat up a fresh egg in a tumbler.

with a lump of sugar. Beat quite to a froth, add a dessertspoonful of brandy, and fill up the tumbler with scalded milk.

Milk With Rum, Whiskey Or Brandy

10,165. Put a tablespoonful of rum, brandy or whiskey into half a pint of new milk, and mix well by pouring several times from one vessel to another. Bilious persons should heat the rum before adding the milk. - Dobell.

Milk, Rum And Isinglass. 1

0,166

Dissolve, in a little hot water over the fire, a pinch of the best isinglass; let it cool, and mix a dessertspoonful of rum with it in a tumbler, and fill up the glass with new milk.