The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1856-05-03
IIaod for the Sick.

What shall eat? How often this ques-
ton is asted by the sick, or those with deli
cate appe&fbe. Nature demands food but
the appet59 does not crave it, and the mind
of the fed Invalid cannot hx upon any
thing thai he will relish.
1t may5llicve such sufferers to point out
few suitable articles of food such as are
easily prepared, and usually tempt delicate
appetites.
Here issone peculiarly New Englandish.
"Cut some goldfish to bits the size of pea
and boil = minute in water to ireshen It,
Pour off1kll the water, and add some cream
and Ii,'le pepper. >.
Ham Or smoked beef may be prepared in
the samesxay. For variety, beat up an
egg and ylir it in, instead OF cream, or with
the crcan
"TheS preparations are also good for a
relish faxa family for breakfast or tea"
Anotiier excellent dish for sick or well,
and eco1omical withal, is made by taking
few rakds Of plot-bread and soaking them
till part soft, after breaking them into
mouthit}kssm just water enough to be all
absorbed then cut slice of fat salt pork
into veryBmal pieces, fry it crisp, pour it
over the tbread, and heat the whole in a
stove oS6ven, or in a spider.
Anoteer plan is to pour over the bread a
sweete1f ed butter gravy, or wine sauce, or
/ the juiek Of stewcd frut and preserves. All
good.
! \ very excellent food fer d,lcate sto-
rnachs may be made by sweet ming water,
cold orshoi, with refined sugar, and crum-
/ bling into it stale bread.
/ Bread and cider used to be favorite food
( in Yankee land, N Old times. Sweeten the
cider, and crumb in it toasted bread.
Beef tea is very nourishing, If rightly
prepared. Take perfectly lean parts OF fat
beef, Gut it into cubes half an inch square,
and soak it some hours in cold wat,r ard
then boil all together for an hour. You may
improve this by adding toasted cracker &c
each Bowl full.
Motion or chicken tea should be made in
the same way, and rice may be added to ell
thers to make It food as well as drink
Sometimes piece Of Goldfish or slice OF
"a, salt pork roasted upon live Goals, will
tempt a convalescent appetite when nothing
else will answer.
Inmaking poriidee Of corn or oatmeal,
be careful to cook il well Don't think II
done till it has boiled an hour.
Rice Cruel does not need as much COOK
ing. IL should not DC given to L person o
constipated habits.
Simple boiled rce is delicate food fo'
the SIX.
Arrowroot, tapioca farina. and corr
+ starch are all the same character- high J
concentrated food. \ good Cruel may b'
made OF either, and favored with sugar
, nutmeg lemon, &c. Stale bread. very dry
crumbed and made into Cruel y perhapt
the most digeStible. Stale bread, toasted
very dry aud brown, and then stepped II
/ water long tirnc, makes good drink to
, the sick, and FURNISHES considerable nou
Iishment-
, In all cases Of sickness, when the aPPe
tite Graves fruit we would give II, ripe AM
, fresh in its season, or preserved and cooke
the most simple manner. Apples for III
= sick should always DC roasted. So shoul
= potatoes.
Ii the friends Of the sick possess It'll
: skill and ncatne>s in the PREPARATION {
o dishes the patient need never say, "wha
shall 1 eat ~ \. IrijnEe.