Mix and allow to stand a few minutes until the meal swells. Then add I pint boiling water and keep hot at the boiling point, adding hot water enough to make up for the .evaporation, stirring MEDICAL DIVISION. 8 I occasionally. Then sweeten and add a few stoned raisins and a little nutmeg. TOAST WATER. Take toast as brown as can be without burning, and pour cold water over it and sweeten, and give as often as desired. RICE WATER. Rice 2 ounces✪ Rice Water. Water i quart. Mix and boil lyi hours. Then sweeten and flavor to suit the taste. ARROW-ROOT FOR Arrow-root 2 ounces. Mix with warm water to make a paste, and then I pint boiling water✪ Arrow-Root. Boil 5 minutes. ARROW-ROOT POP WITH MILK. Arrow-root i ounce. Mix to a paste with a little cold milk. Then add a pint of boiling milk✪ Arrow-Root Pop with Milk and keep on the stove 5 minutes. Then cool and flavor to suit the patient. POP OF UNBOLTED FLOUR. Take a table-spoonful of unbolted flour and mix it with sufficient cold water to make it the thick- ness of cream. Stir into this a pint of boiling water and simmer until it becomes clear ; add a little salt ; after stirring and beating it well remove from the fire; then mix with 4 table-spoonfuls of cream✪ Pop of Unbolted Flour and sweeten with white sugar. 82 DOMESTIC GUIDE. POP OF BOILED FLOUR. Take a tea-cupful of flour, tie it up tightly in a cloth, and boil it 6 hours ; cut off and throw away the outer, doughey, soft portion of the ball ; grate the hard portion and mix with milk to the thick- ness of thin starch ; then stir it into boiling milk✪ Pop of Boiled Flour, and sweeten with white sugar. TAPIOCA. Place a tea-spoonful in a tea-cupful of cold water and let stand over night. Then add a pint of water or milk✪ Tapioca and a little salt. Place on the stove to simmer for half an hour or so. Then flavor and sweeten to suit. SAGO. Sago 2 ounces. Boil in I pint of water✪ Sago 2 hours ; take care that all the grains dissolve ; add boiling water from time to time to make up for evaporation ; then strain and flavor. PANADA. Stale bread, one-half inch thick, free from crust ; toast to a nice brown. Two slices of this toasted bread cut into small squares, are to be placed in a bowl and a little salt sprinkled on them ; then a pint of boiling water✪ Panada to be poured on them, and a little nutmeg added. GELATINE FOOD. Take a piece of gelatine 2 inches square and soak it in cold water for i hour. Then boil it in MEDICAL DIVISION. 83 one-half pint of water until it dissolves, which will be in 10 or 15 minutes. Have at hand a tea- spoonful of arrowroot mixed into a paste with a little water, and add it to the boiling water before removing from the fire, with a half tumblerful of milk, stirring the whole constantly. Then add 2 table-spoonfuls of cream. Sweeten with a small quantity of white sugar, and at once take from the fire, as it will burn if left over the fire with the sugar in. DR. MEREI'S FOOD FOR CHILDREN. Take a tea-spoonful of arrowroot✪ Gelatine Food and boil it in J{ pint water. Add y^ pint boiling milk and add 2 table-spoonfuls of cream. ANOTHER PREPARATION OF ARROW- ROOT. ✪ Another Preparation of Arrow-Root

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Mix and allow to stand a few minutes until the meal swells. Then add I pint boiling water and keep hot at the boiling point, adding hot water enough to make up for the .evaporation, stirring occasionally. Then sweeten and add a few stoned raisins and a little nutmeg. TOAST WATER. Take toast as brown as can be without burning, and pour cold water over it and sweeten, and give as often as desired. RICE WATER. Rice 2 ounces. Water i quart. Mix and boil lyi hours. Then sweeten and flavor to suit the taste. ARROW-ROOT FOR INVALIDS. Arrow-root 2 ounces. Mix with warm water to make a paste, and then I pint boiling water. Boil 5 minutes. ARROW-ROOT POP WITH MILK. Arrow-root i ounce. Mix to a paste with a little cold milk. Then add a pint of boiling milk and keep on the stove 5 minutes. Then cool and flavor to suit the patient. POP OF UNBOLTED FLOUR. Take a table-spoonful of unbolted flour and mix it with sufficient cold water to make it the thickness of cream. Stir into this a pint of boiling water and simmer until it becomes clear ; add a little salt ; after stirring and beating it well remove from the fire; then mix with 4 table-spoonfuls of cream and sweeten with white sugar. POP OF BOILED FLOUR. Take a tea-cupful of flour, tie it up tightly in a cloth, and boil it 6 hours ; cut off and throw away the outer, doughey, soft portion of the ball ; grate the hard portion and mix with milk to the thickness of thin starch ; then stir it into boiling milk, and sweeten with white sugar. TAPIOCA. Place a tea-spoonful in a tea-cupful of cold water and let stand over night. Then add a pint of water or milk and a little salt. Place on the stove to simmer for half an hour or so. Then flavor and sweeten to suit. SAGO. Sago 2 ounces. Boil in I pint of water 2 hours ; take care that all the grains dissolve ; add boiling water from time to time to make up for evaporation ; then strain and flavor. PANADA. Stale bread, one-half inch thick, free from crust ; toast to a nice brown. Two slices of this toasted bread cut into small squares, are to be placed in a bowl and a little salt sprinkled on them ; then a pint of boiling water to be poured on them, and a little nutmeg added. GELATINE FOOD. Take a piece of gelatine 2 inches square and soak it in cold water for i hour. Then boil it in one-half pint of water until it dissolves, which will be in 10 or 15 minutes. Have at hand a teaspoonful of arrowroot mixed into a paste with a little water, and add it to the boiling water before removing from the fire, with a half tumblerful of milk, stirring the whole constantly. Then add 2 table-spoonfuls of cream. Sweeten with a small quantity of white sugar, and at once take from the fire, as it will burn if left over the fire with the sugar in. DR. MEREY'S FOOD FOR CHILDREN. Take a tea-spoonful of arrowroot and boil it in J{ pint water. Add y^ pint boiling milk and add 2 table-spoonfuls of cream. ANOTHER PREPARATION OF ARROW- ROOT.

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