Milk Punch

10,167. Mix well together a tablespoonful of white sugar, two tablespoonfuls of water, a wineglassful of rum; pour into a large tumbler, add some small pieces of ice, and fill the tumbler with milk; stir well, and grate a little nutmeg over the top.

Mulled Buttermilk

10,168. Make a thickening of one tablespoonful of flour and cold buttermilk, and stir into a pint of boiling buttermilk. Stir constantly after putting it on the stove. Add a little allspice, and sweeten to the taste. Pour over pieces of toast.

Buttermilk Whey

10,169. Boil a pint of fresh buttermilk. Add a pinch of salt, a teaspoonful lump sugar, and nutmeg, if liked. Pour off, and sweeten to taste.

Buttermilk

10,170

Boil a spoonful of flour for a few minutes in a pint of buttermilk, and add half a drachm of sugar.

This is a good food for infants with irritable stomach and intestines.

Milk And Lime Water. 1

0,171

Take lime water, three ounces; sweet milk, six ounces; table salt, ten grains. Mix. Dose,, a wineglassful three times a day.

10,172

To make sweet butter and milk that will retain their freshness, add forty grains of salicylic acid to the gallon of cream before churning. This will prevent further decomposition of the milk, preserving it for an indefinite time. The free use of this salicylated buttermilk will be found an excellent remedy in rheumatism.

- Dr. Robert Durrett.

Substitute For Milk

10,173

White of egg.......... 3 iv

Oil of sweet almond......3 ix 1/4

Sugar of milk.........3 x 1/2

Carbonate of sodium...... gr. vj

Common salt......... gr. iij

Water.............Oij

Neutral phosphate of lime, 3 ss-gr. vij 2/3 Make an emulsion. - Tedeschi.

Mint Tea

10,174

Put a few mint leaves in a pint of boiling water, cover, and stand near the fire for an hour.

To be used in febrile and other complaints. When made of fresh leaves, it relieves vomiting.

Mutton Jelly

10,175

Six shanks of mutton, one and a half quarts of water, pepper and salt to taste, half a pound of lean beef, a crust of bread toasted brown. Soak the shanks in water several hours, and scrub them well, put them and the beef and the other ingredients into a saucepan with the water, and let simmer very gently for five hours Strain it, and when cold take off the fat; warm up as much as required when wanted.

Mustard Whey

10,176

Boil one quart of milk with an ounce of bruised mustard seeds, until the milk curdles; strain to separate the whey, and add wine if desired.

Useful in low fever, debilitated stomach, and in dropsy, as an urinary stimulant.

Oatmeal Porridge

10,177

Mix two tablespoonfuls of oat meal with three tablespoonfuls of cold water; stir into a pint of boiling water, boil for three quarters of an hour. To be eaten with a little salt and butter, or sugar and milk.

Good to relieve constipation, where there is no dyspeptic tendency.