The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-01-17
HELPFUL HINTS
FOR PREPARING
INVALID TRAYS

A list of dishes suited to the re-
quirements of the average invalid
should be pasted into the housewives
scrapbook for ready reference in an
emergency.
1t goes without saying that different
diseases require different foods. The
diet of a typhoid patient is entirely
different from that allowed a consump-
tive or one with some disorder of the
blood or nerves. The family physi-
clan must prescribe the general fea-
lures of the diet to be followed. Diet
ing is often important, even in cases
where the services of a trained nurse
are not needed.
In the first place, the arrangement of
the tray itself is of Importance. The
patients appetite needs coaXing, and
the most nourishing and needed food
goes begging if it does not appeal first
of all to the eye. A clean, white SER
viette gives the keynote, accompanied
tremendously by absolutely clear
glass, bright silver and smooth and
unnicked china-the best the house
affords.
The next essential to remember is
the oft-repeated injunction to have hot
things hot and cold things cold. Every
one knows that a cup of hot, steaming
water is rather appetizing than 9TH
erwise, while a cup of lukewarm water
is nauseating. So also with soups,
broths, grueIs, teas, chops, oysters and
game.
All starchy foods require long cook
ing. Cornstarch blanc mango, cooked,
as it often is, only just long enough to
thicken, is almost as indigestible as
Welsh rarebit.
Albumnious foods, such as eggs,
oysters and lean meats, must be cook
ed at low temperature, or they tough
en-. If starchy foods are not allowed
thicken soups and sauces with 1rlsh
moss or yoll5s of eggs.
If sugar is tabooed, use saccharlne,
but take care that all the utensils
used in its cooking are of earthen or
granite, and that the spoon with
which it is stirred is of bone or porce-
lain such as the Chinese use. Fried
foods must never be allowed. II poll
ed milk is objected to, milk simply
heated to pasteuriZation will answer.
With care in the cooking the lnValld
may be permitted white flesh, nsh'
many kinds of game, meats, Salads
hot and cold buildings, cakes and ices.
Clam Frappe.-Wash two dozen
CLAIMS thoroughly and put them in
stewpan with half a cup of cold water
Cover closely and steam until the shells
omen. Strain the liquid and freeze TO
y nush. A small amount may De
eaeiIv frozen in baking powder can
nv setting it in a tin pail and packing
With ice and salt in equal proportions:
,rbe mixture will freeze In about halI
an hour. and should be stirred once or
twice during the freezing. Serve III
glasses.
Chicken Jelly.-Cut chicken up and
,,,,t to hoil in two quarts of water
Sool, unti1 the flesh falls from the
I,onee Take from the fire. pour the
li1,Ior through colander, return to the
not and boil down to half pint. skim
~ refI1llv. salt to taste. and put in a
cool Mace TO solidify. This is excellent
for a typhoid convalescent.
rgg souaie.-This is one of the most
delicate ways in which to prepare an
eog for an invalid. Beat the yolk ana
,yhite separately, until extremely light,
odd a ut1ch of salt, pour into a CHINA
,,,,D and set into a pan of hot water
Sti,. slowly but constantly until the egg
T. sco1ded. but not cooked at high tenn
The egg should only thicken slightly,
hut pun I'D until the cup is almost