Northern Ohio journal. [volume] (Painesville, Ohio) 1872-1896, 1873-09-20


Beef Ter This is the most proper
food that can be given where the patient
is In a low, pros trate cordition, with
but little recuperative power left in the
system. 1t is made as follows: Take a
plece Of tender, lean beef, large enough,
when cut up. to fill a large coffee-cnp;
cut it very fine, almost into minee; put
il into two cups. or double its own bulk
of cold water; bring it to a boil, skim-
ming it as the skum rises 10 the top;
continue the boiling till cne-half of the
,v,.ter-isas -beeTf rvaporatcd, wfIeiT IT is
ready for use. Gse noseasonlng except
q little salt. IL the patient be much re-
duced, from the effects of prostrating fe-
vers, or other causes, this is to be given,
at grst, in teaspoon quantities; then
gradually increased in quantity, as the
patient gains strength-taking care that
no more is takeir at time than the
stomach is aDle to bear. Better give a
litt}e.-ofteff; tisau to overload the stom-
ach with more than Ii caIl fIfauage. As
soon as the patient RECEIVERS sufficiently
to require something solid, a little toast
ed sOda-cracker, or hiee wheaten bread,
may be crumbed i'm with the broth. If
beef can not always be procured, the
next best thing is mutton, wild fowls,
squirrels, rabbits, and last OF all, chick
Gus. Wild fowls are much healthier
than domestic ones. and veHison II heal
thier than beef or mutton. $50 o.
Broths made from boiling mutton, or
other meat, with pearl barley, till the
latter becomes Il jelly, is an excellent
diet for the sick. First soak the barley
several hours In cold water, then put
the water and barley, together with the
meat, in the pot, and boil till sufficiently
81 t.
also good.
Cora-.Stdrch.-Get the Oswego corn
starch, and make into light, boiled pud-
| dings. Take all milk, or part milk and
part water, and bring to u boil; then
Stir in corn-starch, which has been beat
en- into paste, and thinned with milk
or water, till it is Of the proper consis-
tency. Cook for fifteen or twenty min
utcs over a moderate fire, stirring it all
the while, to prevent its burning. For
sick people, do not put in eggs, ae-
cOrtlsng to the directions accompanying
each package, rs the eggs, when cooked
hard, are too hard 10 digest. This is as
good as Bermuda arrow root, and is
much cheaper.
| Sago.-W ash it clean, and soak in cold
water for one hour; now put in stew
| pan, in the same water, and cook gently
| till it Is done. Season with a little nut
4 meg and lemon, and also add wine and
supar, if you like. If preferred, it can
/ be boiled the same way in new milk
1 Neal Gruel Stir u little Indian-meal
Or. oatmeal. with water, and boil tho
roughly till well done, stirring it 50 i
will not burn. 7tfer a.li 4-
MIX PJrridge.-Briitg one quart OF
| milk to boil, and stir in little flour
/ which has been we'll beaten into paste
and thfnncd, till it is of the desired con
4 sistency. Cook till well done. Roas
and baked potatoes, baked apples, and
soft-boilctl eggs, are good for sick per
! sons when in an advanced state of con
salescence, but are not good to be eater
ut first, as they would prove too mucl
for tire digestive organs.
l Toast.-Take good, nice wheaton
bread, and cut in slices, and toast till !;
4 little brown; now put a slice on Il plat'
and turn on little hot water. and al
low IT to remain long enough to moistei
i 1t all through, but no longer; thel
sprinkle a little salt oyer it, spread i
4 with little fresh butter, or sweet cream
Prepare what you want in the same way
and, having pit all the slices together OF
4 the same plate, set 1t in the oven, ant
allow it to remain till it becomes vel
heated all through, but not long enougl
to bake and become dry. This is not
bad dish for well people to take. "a,
II Toast Kater.-Toast two. or thre
slices of bread, till = well Drowned al
through but not burned in the least
Put ia a pitcher, and turn OIL one pin
: Of hot water, and let it stand for half al
hour or .so,f when it is ready for use
Sweeten> with loaf sugar, if you like
q This is cool and hourishing. asa
II Sttppery Elm and Ddte-Wdier is ais,
d eoolaand nourishing for sick people
Take cumblerful OF nice plump dates
or of slippery elm, and put into a pint o
ii cold water, and let it stand till it become
Il thick. like macilage or gunl-water. Pco
pie have been known to live for week
upon this, when the stomach was una
Bile TO bear any thing else. H