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BEEF-TEA SOUP. --To one pint of "beef essence" (made, in a bottle, as directed
in recipe on a preceding page), quite hot, add a tea-cup of the best cream, well
heated, into which the yolk of a fresh egg has been previously stirred; mix
carefully together, and season slightly, and serve.
CINNAMON TEA. --To a half pint fresh, new milk add stick or ground cinnamon
enough to flavor, and white sugar to taste; bring to boiling point, and take
either warm or cold. Excellent for diarrh“a in adults or children. A few drops
or a tea-spoonful of brandy may be added, if the case demands.
STEWED OYSTERS. --Remove all bits of shell from a half dozen fresh, select
oysters, place in a colander, pour over a tea-cup of water, drain, place liquor,
drained off, in a porcelain-lined sauce-pan, let come to boiling point, skim
well; pour off, into another heated dish, all except the last spoonful which
will contain sediment and bits of shell which may have been over-looked, wipe
out sauce-pan, return liquor, add oysters, let come to the boiling point, add a
small lump of good butter, a tea-spoonful of cracker dust, a very little cayenne
pepper and salt, and a half tea-cup fresh, sweet cream.
MEAT FOR INVALIDS. --The following method of rendering raw meat palatable to
invalids is given by good authority: To 8.7 ounces of raw meat, from the loin,
add 2.6 ounces shelled sweet almonds, .17 ounces shelled bitter almonds, and 2.8
ounces white sugar--these to be beaten together in a marble mortar to a uniform
pulp, and the fibres separated by a strainer. The pulp, which has a rosy hue and
a very agreeable taste, does not at all remind one of meat, and may be kept
fresh for a considerable time, even in summer, in a dry, cool place. Yolk of egg
may be added to it. From this pulp, or directly from the above substances, an
emulsion may be prepared which will be rendered still more nutritious by adding
milk.
RAW BEEF. --Chop fresh, lean beef (the best steak or roast) very fine, sprinkle
with salt and pepper, and put between thin slices of Graham or white
buttered-bread. This is a very nutritious diet.--Mrs. L. S. W.
RAW BEEF-TEA. --Cut up lean, frest meat, soak eight or ten hours in a small
quantity of cold water. This is good after severe cases of typhoid fever.
ARTICLES FOR THE SICK-ROOM.--A rubber bag, holding two quarts, to be one-half or
three-quarters filled with hot water, and placed about the patient where
needed--under head in neuralgia, around the side in liver-congestion, etc.; or
can be filled with very cold water in cases needing such applications--is very
flexible and agreeable, and can be used where a soap-stone or bottle would hurt.
Price, $2.00.
A pair of very long, loose stockings, knit of Saxony wool, or any soft yarn,
without heels, to draw on towards morning in fever cases, or to keep a patient
warm when she is up; they might come half way between the knee and thigh. Every
housekeeper should have a pair to be used in cases of sickness.
A board, three inches wide and as long as the window is wide, to be placed under
the lower window-sash when raised a little, to give a gentle circulation of air
between the sashes without the possibility of a draught on any one.
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