Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-05-22
FOOD FOR THE SICK.


ton is asked by the sick, or those with del
icate appetites Nature demands food, but
the appetite does not crave it, and the mind
of the feeble invalid cannot fix upon any
thing that he will relish.
1t may relieve such sufferers to point out
few suitable articles of food, such as are
easily prepared, and usually tempt delicate
appetites.
Here is one particularly New-England-
ish:
"Cut some Goldfish to bits the size of a pea,
and boil it a minute in water to freshen it.
Pour off all the water, and add some cream
and little pepper.
"Splt and toast Boston cracker, and put
the above in it. Milk and little butter
may be used instead of cream.
"Ham or smoked beef may be prepared
in the same way. For variety, beat up an
egg and stir it in, instead of cream, or with
the cream.
"These preparations are also good for a
relish, for a family, for breakfast or tea"
Another excellent dish for sick or we'll,
and economical withal, is made by taking a
few cakes of pilot bread and soaking them
till partially soft, after breaking them into
mouthfuls, in just water enough to be all
absorbed then cut slice of fat salt pork
into very small pieces, fry it crisp, pour it
over the bread, and heat the whole in a
stove or oven, or in spider.
Another plan is to pour over the bread a
sweetened butter gravy, or wine sauce, or
the juice of stewed fruit or preserves. All
are good.
A very excellent food for delicate stom-
achs may be made by sweetening water, cold
or hot, with refined sugar, and crumbing
into it stale bread.
Bread and cider used to be favorite food
in Yankee land, in old times. Sweeten the
cider, and crumble into it toasted bread.
Beef tea is very nourishing, if rightly pre-
pared. Take perfectly lean parts of fat
beef, cut it into cubes half an inch square,
and soak it some hours in cold water, and
then boil all together for an hour. You
may improve this by adding toasted crack
er on each bowl-full.
Mutton or chicken tea should be male in
the same way, and rice may be added to Ell
ther, to make it food as well as drink.
Sometimes piece Of Goldfish or a slice of
fat salt pork, roasted upon live Goals, will
tempt convalescence appetite when nothing
else will answer.
In making porridge Of corn or oatmeal, be
careful to cook it we'll. Don't think it done
till it has boiled an hour
Rice Cruel does not need so much cook
ing. 1t should not be given to person of
constipated habits. Simple boiled rice is a
delicate food for the sick.
Arrowrost, tapioca, farina and corn starch,
are all of the same character-highly con-
centratcl food. A good cruel may be made
of either, and favored with sugar, nutmeg,
lemon, &c. Stale bread, very dry, crumbled
and made into cruel is, perhaps, the most
digestiblc. Stale bread toasted very dry and
brown, and then stepped in water a long
time, makes good drink for the sick, and
furnishes considerable nourshment
In all cases of sickness, when the appetite
Graves fruit W would give it, ripe and fresh
in its season, or preserved and cooked in the
most simple manner. Apples for the sick
should always be roasted. So should pota-
toes.
If the friends of the sick possess little
skill and neatness in the preparation of dish
es, the patient need never say, "what shall
I eat ?''