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The new Annie Dennis cook book

1905

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Presented as published in 1905. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Prepare the chickens, add the fat meat, the squirrel, rabbit, or turtle, add the onions and the clove of garlic. Boil until the onions and pork dissolve and the other meats are cooked to shreds. Dip the meat and bones out with a coarse strainer. If the meat is not thor- oughly shredded mash it in a crock with a potato masher. Put the meat back in the stock, discarding the bones. Add Worcestershire sauce, then add salt and pepper to taste. Add bottle of Chili sauce, and four cans of tomatoes. Boil well, constantly stirring to prevent scorching. When well boiled down add two cans of corn. Cook five minutes longer, and serve. This makes approximately two and a half gallons of stew. The ingredients may be scaled according to your requirements. This recipe has a national reputa- tion according to advices from a prominent Southern newspaper. 366 THE NEW ANNIE DENNIS COOK BOOK MISCELLANEOUS Food for Very Delicate Babies — Drs. S, A. McCosh and Chas. Pinkney This treatment has been found efficacious as food for deli- cate babies, when everything else has failed. In cases where all the prepared foods have been tried, with failure as a result, this has been used with wonderful success. For the sake of suffering babies, we give this prescription of the late Drs. McCosh and Pinkney, of Atlanta, Georgia: Prepared Whey Take a quart of fresh, rich, cow's milk, stir into it as much fresh pepsin (Fairchild's is best) as can be held easily on the point of a pocket knife, wet in a half teaspoonful of cold water. Put the milk over a lamp with a tiny point of the flame. Let it stand fifteen, twenty or thirty minutes until the milk is just blood warm, when it will form a firm clabber. Break the clab- ber, let it whey and then strain through a strong cloth. Press the curd gently until it begins- to get hard and then squeeze as hard as possible to get out all the cream. Give the baby six or eight tablespoonfuls with a tablespoonful of lime water and a very little bit of loaf sugar. Give it just milk warm. The lime water can be left out if the mucus in the bowels is not very great, but if the bowels are much inflamed, two tablespoonfuls of lime water will not hurt, but be beneficial. (Of course the lime must be well washed). Whey is not heat producing, and if the child is much reduced, the limbs should be rubbed once a day with whiskey or brandy. After the whey seems not to sat- isfy for two hours, and the condition of the bowels is improved, the food (milk, gelatine and arrowroot), may be given cautiously. Milk, Gelatine and Arrowroot Food Milk, Gelatine and Arrowroot Food