This section is from the book "Mrs. Rorer's Diet For The Sick", by Sarah Tyson Rorer. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Rorer's Diet For The Sick.
Milk and milk foods are to be preferred, if they agree with the patient; if they do not, select such easily-digested foods as cream soups, with dry bread; sweetbreads, broiled, stewed, and creamed; now and then a piece of white meat of chicken, broiled or roasted; eggs, cooked in any light way, or raw with milk; light topground vegetables, carefully cooked and served without rich sauces; an occasional baked potato; boiled rice; unleavened bread, whole wheat bread, crisp corn bread; fruits, raw, and stewed without sugar; steamed figs and dates, all thoroughly masticated.
All highly-seasoned foods
All rich meats and stimulating meat soups Tea Coffee Pork Veal Duck Goose
Pickles
Dishes containing sugar
Onions
Garlic
Chives
All coarse vegetables
Soft foods, as mushes
Cooked fats of every kind
 
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