Scientific cooking with scientific methods

Toast stale bread until a rich dark brown, and use equal measure of boiling water. Salt to taste. Oatmeal Water. One cup fine oatmeal, and two quarts water, boiled and cooled. Add oatmeal to water and keep where the temperature is at 80° F. about two hours. Strain and serve. Apple Water. 1 large tart apple. 1 tablespoon sugar. 1 cup boiling water. Wipe, core and pare apple. Put sugar in cavity. Bake in moderate oven to a golden brown. Mash, pour over water, and let stand for thirty minutes. Strain. Currant Water. 1/10 glass currant jelly, or 1 cup cold water. 3 tablespoons currant Sugar, juice. 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Mix juice and water, and sweeten to taste. (Care must be used not to have it too sweet.) If jelly is used, mash the jelly and dissolve in the water, and, if not sweet enough, more sugar can be added. Tamarind Water. 2 tablespoons preserved 1 cup boiling water, tamarinds. Sugar to taste. Pour water over tamarinds, and stir until well mixed. Let it stand for thirty minutes, then strain. Sweeten to taste. Grape Juice. 1% cups Concord grapes. 1 cup cold water. 14 cup sugar. "Wash, pick over and remove stems. Add water, and cook in double boiler for about one and one-half hours. Add sugar, and cook for twenty-five minutes; strain and cool. Pour over shaved ice. Syrup for Sweetening Fruit Waters for the Sick-room. 0.5 cups sugar. 2.25 cups water. Stir it over fire until sugar is dissolved. Boil for five minutes from the time it begins boiling rapidly. Every additional five minutes will thicken one degree. Place in air-tight preserve-jar, for use as needed. Lemonade. 1 tablespoon lemon juice. 2 tablespoons syrup. Shaved ice and water. If ice is to be used, have it shaved. Place in tumbler, pour on syrup, and add lemon juice, then water. Stir or shake well, and serve. Apollinaris, seltzer or soda water may be used. Orangeade. Juice 1 orange. 1.5 tablespoons syrup. 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Crushed ice. Pour orange and lemon juice over the crushed ice. Add syrup. Mix by stirring or shaking. Flaxseed Lemonade. 1 tablespoon whole flax- 1 pint boiling water, seed. Lemon juice. Sugar. Pick over and wash flaxseed. Add water, and cook for two hours in double boiler. Strain, add lemon juice, and sugar to taste. Koumiss. 1 quart milk. % yeast cake, dissolved in 1 1 tablespoon sugar. tablespoon lukewarm water. Heat milk in double boiler until lukewarm. Add sugar and dissolved yeast cake. Fill beer bottles within one and one-half inches of top. Cork and invert, using care to tie cork down with strong twine. Stand at a temperature of 80° F. for six hours. Chill and serve the following day. Milk Punch. 1/; cup milk. 1 tablespoon whisky. Sugar. brandy or rum. Nutmeg. Mix ingredients, cover, and shake well until very foamy. Mary Mantenon gave us the refreshing milk punch for the sick-room. Albutnenized Milk. Y2 cup milk. White 1 egg. Put white of egg in tumbler, add milk, cover tightly, and shake until thoroughly mixed. Egg-nog I. 1 egg, beaten until 2 tablespoons wine, or 1 very light. tablespoon brandy. 1 tablespoon sugar. Pinch of salt. % cup milk. Beat egg until light and creamy; add sugar, salt and wine. Mix thoroughly, add milk, and strain Egg-nog 11.