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.
Raw eggs alone
Beaten white of egg on orange juice, or grape juice, or fresh apple juice Hard-boiled yolks of eggs on cream toast Hard-boiled yolks of eggs grated over creamed chicken Egyptian eggs Beauregard eggs Plain whole milk Milk and barley water Milk and rice water Gum and milk gruel Posset
Junket with cream Plain junket Egg junket Koumys Leban Matzoon Zoolak Olive oil Cocoa; chocolate Alkathrepta Racahout Puree of dried peas, beans and lentils
Meiggs' Food
Eskay's Food
Whole wheat bread
Toasted pilot bread
Crisp rolls
Baked potato
Broiled or panned steak
Hamburg steaks
Smothered meat
Roasted lamb or mutton
Roasted beef
Sweetbreads
Broiled chicken
Creamed chicken
Boiled rice
Carefully-cooked hominy
Fresh peas, pressed through a sieve Lima beans with cocoanut sauce Lettuce hearts with cocoanut cream Carefully-cooked spinach A few ground, oily nuts (not with meals)
All bulk foods
Coarse vegetables
Pork; veal
Ducks
Goose
All acid foods
Sorrel
Limes
Pickles
Bananas, unless well cooked
Strong tea
Pastry
Sweets in general
All fried foods
Hot breads; white bread
 
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