Year: 1864

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Cooking for the Sick.


4 All tired to death of this toast and
Cruel, said a sick man, 'eant you con-
trive me something else, wife. never
shall get well until I haze something I
can relish. The same thing over and
over again is too tiresome. I an hungry
as bear, but don't believe could get
down another spoonful of Cruel, if I died
for it, and the convaleseent turned rest
lossly on his pillow, thinking how tough
it was to be laid by just in harvest tine,
ana everything going to rack and ruin


La me, Silas, said aunt Cynthia, who
happened in just as the bowl of cruel had
been sentenced and condemned, Il eau
fix you in no time. just cut me Of the
incest slice of pork, very thin, that you
have got in the barrel, Rachel, and I'll
Just toast it over the Goals and if that on
slice Of bread won't do him good, no.
thing will


Its enough to make full man
hungry to hear you talk, aunt Cynlhy.
Let's have the toasted pork, Melia, as
quick as wink. It's what l have been
wanting all along and could not think
of it So the slice was duly Drowned
over the glowing Goals, and tempting
enough it looked on the excellent slice
Of home made bread. The sick nan
looked one percent. better after his'meal,
though he thought he could manage
another slice with ease. 57zt


No, SIas, you must begin moderate
said the old nurse. A little of almost
any thing you crave when you are getting
better won't hurt you. DR.. Hall says
nature kneEs best what is wanting IN her
larder, and he gives a person who is
getting well anything he Graves, from a
pickle to sole leather. provided only it is
in small quantities. Iaillgive Meia some
of my receipts for making 'messss' for
sick folks, il she wants them -T
8 wish you would with all my heart
So The good auntie wrote down in her
crumpled hand-frst, Goldfish relish,


you may be sure she was a Yankee.
Pick to pieces a bit of goldfish. Let it
soak little to freshen it. Pour of the
water, and add a cup of cream and little
pepper. Heat up together, and add a
toasted cracker split in two. Cream is
great deal better than all your cod liver
oil, she explained, though people are
only just finding it out. Pity they had
not jound it out sooner. It's sight
easier to take, and don't cost half as
much


If you want a pleasant, refreshing
drink, said aunt Cynthia take a bowl
of cider and crum into it a slice of hot
toasted bread.


IF you are sick, and need something
delicate, take fine bit Of mutton, or
and boil it an hour in saltsd
water. Beef tea is excellent made in the
same way. is


you are well enough to eat an egg,
crack the end of the shetland rOastit in
the oven few minutes. Nothing can be
nicer than it will be, when prepared dlwith
a little salt 9


"A good mealy potatoo roasted would
not hurt you bit, Silas, for your dinner,
now your fever is broken '5


I shall get well, aunt CyntIy, you
may depend That broiled pork beat all
the doctors doses.


If people would study cookery for the
sick little, many a poor invalid might
be made much more comfortable; and if
the guidance of nature was better follow
ed, instead of being thwartsd, recovery
would be far more speedy. Only do not
forget the injunction of moderation in all
things. ~