Invalid Cookery
Apple Water
Cut 2 large apples into slices, and pour a quart of boiling water on them or on roasted apples; strain in two or three hours, and sweeten…
Barley Gruel
Wash 4 ounces of pearl barley; boil it in 2 quarts of water with a stick of cinnamon till reduced to a quart; strain, and return it to the…
Barley Water
Wash a handful of common barley; then simmer it gently in 3 pints of water with a bit of lemon peel. This is less apt to nauseate than that…
Arrowroot Jelly
Put into a saucepan half a pint of water, a glassful of sherry or a spoonful of brandy, grated nutmeg, and fine sugar; boil once up, then…
Beef, Mutton, and Veal Broth
Put 2 pounds of lean beef, 1 pound of scrag of veal, 1 pound of scrag of mutton, sweet herbs, and 10 peppercorns, into a nice tin sauce-pan…
Beef Tea
Cut in small pieces 2 pounds' weight of fresh lean beef; add 3 pints of cold water; when on the eve of boiling, carefully remove the scum…
Clear Broth
The following is a clear broth that will keep long. Put the mouse round of beef, a knucklebone of veal, and a few shanks of mutton into a…
Light Bread Pudding
Pour some boiling-hot milk on a few thin slices of white bread or the crumb of French rolls; when cold beat up 1 whole egg and the yolks of…
Calves'-Feet Jelly
Boil 2 calves' feet in 4 quarts of water for five hours; then strain the liquor through a hair sieve, and the next day take off all the…
Calves'-Feet Broth
Boil 2 feet in 3 quarts of water to half; strain, and set it by. When to be used take off the fat, put a large teacupful of the jelly into…
Chicken Broth (Put the body and legs)
Put the body and legs of the fowl that chicken-panada was made of, after taking off the skin and rump, into the water it was boiled in with…
Minced Chicken
Take the breast of a cold roast chicken, and mince it finely. Add half a teaspoonful of fine flour, together with five or six teaspoonfuls…
Chicken with Sauce
Prepare the chicken as in the recipe "Chicken with Sippets." Serve it up with a delicate sauce made by stirring the yolks of 2 fresh eggs…
Chicken with Sippets
Take a small chicken trussed for boiling, and let it soak in a pan of cold water for half an hour. Put it into a small stewpan just large…
Egg Wine
Beat an egg, mix with it a spoonful of cold water. Set on the fire a glassful of white wine, half a glassful of water, sugar, and nutmeg…
Eggs
An egg broken into a cup of tea, or beaten and mixed with a basin of milk, makes a breakfast more supporting than tea solely. An egg…
Macaroni with Broth
Take a small quantity of real Italian macaroni, and boil it in water till it is just tender. Drain the water off on a hair sieve; then put…
Meat Jelly
Take 2 or 3 pounds of the knuckle of veal, the same weight of fresh-killed gravy-beef, and 1 calf's foot; cut the meat from the bones, and…
Mutton Broth (This is best made)
This is best made with the scrag-ends of the necks chopped in pieces, then well washed and soaked in warm water to draw out the blood, and…
Orange Jelly
Use only half a pint of water to 1 ounce of isinglass, and proceed as in the recipe "Isinglass Jelly." Then rub the rinds of 1 lemon and of…
Veal Broth (Very Nourishing)
Put the knuckle of a leg or shoulder of veal with very little meat to it, an old fowl, and 4 shankbones of mutton extremely well soaked and…
Panada (Made in Five Minutes)
Set a little water on the fire with a glassful of white wine, some sugar, and a scrape of nutmeg and lemon peel; meanwhile grate some…
Sponge-Cake Pudding
Pour boiling milk on 6 penny sponge cakes, and follow the same directions as for the bread pudding (sea "Light Bread Pudding"), sometimes…
Tapioca Jelly
Choose the largest sort, pour cold water on to wash it two or three times, then soak it in fresh water five or six hours, and simmer it in…
Vermicelli, Italian Paste, and Rice
These are all to be prepared in the same way as macaroni (see "Macaroni with Broth"). In this way light and nutritious diet will be…
Water Gruel
Put a large spoonful of oatmeal by degrees into a pint of water, and when smooth boil it.
Whey
That of cheese is a very wholesome drink, especially when the cows are in fresh herbage.
White Broths with Vermicelli
Light and delicate white broths may be produced by stirring the yolks of 2 or 3 fresh eggs with 2 tablespoonfuls of cold water, which must…