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
Buttermilk
Matzoon
Clabber
Junket and junket preparations
Vegetable gelatin with fruit juices
Nut preparations made from ground nuts Whole wheat bread An occasional piece of corn bread Now and then stale white bread White meat of chicken Beef Lamb
White-fleshed fish A little olive oil Butter Cream
Cocoanut cream Custards
Occasionally ice cream Baked potatoes
Soft-boiled onion now and then Stewed cucumbers Stewed summer squash Spinach
Cauliflower
Tender celery, stewed
Lettuce hearts, with a little French dressing Prunes, stewed without sugar Scalded dates Baked bananas Stewed bananas An occasional mutton chop cooked in a paper bag Cream soups, especially those made from celery, green peas, split peas and ground nuts Rice pudding Boiled rice as a savory, not with sugar Now and then a little carefully-stewed macaroni Oranges Grape fruit Lemonade Ripe peaches
Apples baked without sugar Mellow apples, raw Small fruits made into mush and strained Large grapes, seeded and skinned
 
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