Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book

Put the meal and salt in the double boiler, pour on the boiling water, and cook two or three hours. Remove the cover just before serving, and stir with a fork to let the steam escape. If the water in the lower boiler be strongly salted, the meal will cook more quickly. Serve with sugar or salt, and cream. Baked sour apples, apple sauce and apple jelly are delicious eaten with the oatmeal. They should be served with the mush, and the cream and sugar poured over the whole. They give the acid flavor which so many crave in the morning. Coarse oatmeal is not suitable for any form of water brash, acidity, or bowel irritation. It often causes eruptions on the skin in warm weather. Oatmeal Mush for Children or Invalids. 1 cup granulated oatmeal. 1 scant quart boiling water. The Boston Cook Booh. Indian Meal Mush. 1 cup corn meal. 1 cup cold milk. 3 teaspoonful salt. | 1 pint boiling water. Mix the meal and salt with the cold milk. Stir this gradually into the boiling water. Cook half an hour in a double boiler, stirring often. Graham Mush. Mix half a cup of Graham flour and half a teaspoonful of salt. Make it into a thin smooth paste with a little cold water. Stir it into one pint of boiling water. Cook twenty minutes, stirring often. Serve with cream. Rye Mush is made in the same manner, and sometimes served with molasses. Gluten Mush, — Use one cup of gluten to one pint of boiling water, and cook as above. Being destitute of starch, it will not thicken like Rye Mush. Brain Food. {Health Food Co.) Wet one cup of Brain Food in a little cold water and stir it into one quart of salted boiling water. Cook over hot water one to two hours. Eat, hot or cold, with sugar and cream. Bice Water or Jelly. 2 tablespoonfuls rice. | Salt and sugar to taste. 1 quart cold water. ] Pick over and wash the rice, and cook in water one hour, or till the rice is dissolved. Add salt and sugar to taste. If intended for jell}', add lemon juice and strain into a mould. When cold, serve with sugar and cream. If to be used as a drink, add more hot water, enough to make a thin liquid, and boil longer. Add half a square inch of stick cinnamon, and strain. Serve hot or cold. Bice is easily digested and almost wholly assimilated ; it is good in diarrhoea or dysentery. 41 6 The Boston Cook Booh. Tapioca Jelly. cup pearl tapioca. 1 pint cold water. 1 saltspoonful salt. 1 tablespoonful lemon juice. 1 heaping tablespoonful sugar. Pick over and wash the tapioca. Add the cold water, and cook in a double boiler until entirely dissolved. Then add the salt, lemon juice, and sugar. Turn into a mould. Serve with sugar and cream. Half a cup of strawberry, raspberry, or blackberry jam or currant jelly may be used in place of lemons. Irish Moss Jelly. % cup Irish moss. I 1 lemon. 1 pint boiling water. | cup sugar. Soak the moss in cold water until soft. Pick over and wash again. Then put it into the boiling water, and simmer until it is dissolved. Add the lemon juice and sugar. Strain into a mould. Use currant jelly in place of lemon, or steep four or five figs with the moss.