This site is the complete 1905 book Meals Medicinal: Curative Foods from the Cook, in Place of Drugs from the Chemist, page by page as originally printed — period spelling, remedies and opinions included. About this edition →
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Fruits of the Orchard
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Highlights
Angelica
66 THE candied stems of this aromatic English herb, as sold commonly by our confectioners, are of excellent service to relieve…
Sparrow
THE House Sparrow (Passer domesticus) differs from the Hedge Sparrow (Accentor modularis), the former being a grain-eater, but…
Sago
GROWING naturally in Japan, and the East Indian Islands, whilst also cultivated in English hot-houses, is the Sagus Palm, which…
Tamarinds
THE "Tamar Hindee," Indian date, comes to us only as a sweet, sub-acid, juicy fruit-pulp intermixed with fibrous strings, and…
Bread
BREAD is such an essential food in all countries that it may well be called the "Staff of Life." "Quando deest panis tunc est…
Sandwich
SUETONIUS, who lived in the times of the Cæsars, tells of the Sandwich as known among the Romans under the name "Offula;" though…