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Rub together in a mortar the meat from the breast of a cold chicken with stale bread, one-half of each, then add slowly the water in which the chicken was boiled, or some nice broth, entirely free from fat. Boil for a few moments and pass the whole through a fine sieve. Mrs. H. P. BEEF JELLY. (Excellent for Convalescents. ) Make some beef tea (see Soups with Meat) with a very little salt. Place one-eighth of an ounce of gelatine in a saucepan with a little cold water and soak. When sufficiently swollen place on the fire and boil until dissolved. Take the beef-tea extract when nearly cold, add the gelatine, stir well, and turn into molds. Chicago Hospital. BRAN JELLY. Cover three cupfuls of bran with cold water, let settle; then pour off all the water and add three and one-half cupfuls of boiling water and stir well; place on the stove and boil slowly for two hours; then strain, return to the fire, let come to the boiling point, add one teaspoonfui of salt; pour into a mold. Delightful and wholesome. St. Luke's Hospital. ARROWROOT JELLY. Take one cupful of boiling water, two heaping teaspoonfuls of arrowroot, two heaping teaspoonfuls of white sugar, one tablespoonful of brandy or three tablespoonfuls of wine. This is excellent for weak bowels. A Nurse. LEMON WHEY. An excellent drink for a person with a cold, to induce perspiration, is made putting one-half pint of milk in a saucepan. BBoil and pour in a tablespoonful of lemon juice; add more if this does not turn the milk Let it boil up, then put it into a bowl to settle; strain and sweeten and add a little hot water if the whey is too acid to be agreeable. Nurse at Sanitarium. STERILIZED LEMONADE. Squeeze the juice out of a lemon. Strain it, put it with one-quarter of the rind and four lumps of loaf sugar into a pitcher and pour over it one pint of boiling water. Cover close and let it stand two hours. Then strain and it will be ready for use. Lemonade for the sick should be made with boiling water as the unhealthy properties of the lemon are thus destroyed. A small quantity only of sugar should be put in as the acidity will most likely be agreeable. Health School. BEVERAGE FOR FEVER PATIENT. One-half of a fresh peach, one teaspoonful of brandy, one tablespoonful of sugar, the juice of one-half of a lemon; strain, then add plenty of shaved ice. Nemie Freeman ICE MINT. One-fourth of teaspooniul of peppermint, one tablespoonful of powdered sugar, one tablespoonful of water, one teaspoonful of wine, also one teaspoonful of brandy, mix together well, fill glass with shaved ice; sip through a straw. Mrs. Della Fox. EXTRACT OF BEEF. Lean beef chopped fine. Put a sufficient quantity into a bottle to fill up its body, cork it loosely, and place it in a pot of cold water, attaching the neck, by means of a string to the handle of the vessel. Boil this for one and one-half hours, then pour off the liquor and skim it. To this preparation may be added spices, salt, wine, brandy, etc., according to the taste of the patient and nature of the disease. Mrs. Rita Pilard. FRENCH MILK PORRIDGE.