The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1885-07-08
Letter from Florida.

BetbeT lTOW rIOTIUhs
Dear Household: Il, stranded away
off here in Florida, was very glad to see
Household column opened, and / have
obtained much valuable information
therefrom, though such recipes as take
milk and cream have to skip. We
have to depend on condensed milk and
baking powders, because everybody is
orange crazy, and-except a few who
keep COW and devote quarter or half
an acre to forage crops for her-think
they can't afford to devote cleared land
to milk; so they let their cows run wild
and milk them when they can catch
them, and then bring the milk in and
sell it for ten or twelve cents a quart in
summer. was very much interested
in Mrs. A. WIS rhubarb, and want a
root, and 1 will send anything can
from here that she or any of the House.
hold sisters want. / tried to get some
| Vermont willows started, but made a
mistake and killed them. The Sensi-
tive plant (n,imoca pudico), Ageratum,
Lupinus, Phlox, Portulacca, Gonna,
Salviavinca, Lantana, Ipomoea, Guam
ochit Cypress vine), Maurandia, Thun-
bergia, Coleus, Passion Flower (vine),
Honeysuckle, Water Lily, Yucca Abu-
tilon, Achania, Begonia Metallica, Gao
tus prickly pear), Cape Jasmine,
Chrysanthemum, Grape Myrtle, Sweet
scented Geraniums, Pomegranates, etc. =,
grow here wild, or so common as to be
practically so. Monthly roses bloom
nearly all the year (out of doors). There
is one thing l wish to say to the sister,
hood: think we make a mistake in
discarding the porridges of our grand
mothers days. They may be made of
rice (parched in the oven), white hon.
my, hulled oats, or anything of the
kind but it must be boiled two or three
hours to get the best results from it. 1t
may be boiled in the morning, until the
grain is all broken up, and then heated
and the milk and sugar added at supper
time Gor it is supper dish), especially
for the children, though you will find
paterfamilias " will want a bowl-full
of it at his place, and will crumb - in
dry bread, crackers, or most anything
you have to spare. Eggs are the most
easily assimilated food in the world, l
believe, taken rdW, and for that rea-
son are the best thing to give sick peo-
pie, especially such as are suffering
from dysentery, dyspepsia, or any dis
ease of the stomach or intestinal canal,
or for morbid appetite. Pick out the
little stringy place that won't beat up
and would betray the raw egg under
any disguise; cook cracker crumbs in
milk until it is thick enough for Gus
tard, then add a well-beaten egg and
sugar, and you have custard that is
far superior to one where the egg is
cooked, or you can use well-beaten
egg, simply sailed, for gravy on toast or
potatoes, but | think little thickened
milk or water and butter improves it.
Call it fried egg gravy. 1t has the fla
vor of fried eggs. When you make
Cruel always add well-beaten egg; the
patient won't know the difference, but
you have to cool it little before the
egg is stirred in. When you have pa
tient that you wish to have take a raw
egg before breakfast, just give drink
of water; then beat your egg with about
tea-spoonful of graduated sugar, and
walk up and tell your patient to swal-
low it. He will be vexed and call you
all the bad names he can think of Gf he
really needs the egg and assure you
that he should throw it up instantly.
Tell him to drink it and see. He can't
vomit and won't raise any objections
next time. l have tried it about thirty
times on as many different individuals,
with the same result. In gastritis give
very little of the white, when the
stomach can't bear anything more. In
all other fevers an egg in the morning
and then from four to six ounces of
milk or cruel once in three or four
hours. One day on cruel ,ceU boiled
will cure most colds and sore Threats.
We eat too much of unassimilable foods,
and judicious feeding will help us out
of our troubles, weakness and nervous
ness beyond belief. Lock Box $50,
Orlando, Orange Co., Florida