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1925 Missouri Farm Womens Cookbook .. Dishes for the Sick

“A simple diet is best, For many dishes bring distress.”


DIET FOR THE SICK

The following list is limited to such liquid, semi-liquid and semi-solid foods, as would be easily obtained in the rural districts, since this book is especially for the rural people.

Avoid all vegetables and fruits canned in tin.

Avoid all fried foods.

Liquid Diet. Tea, beef broth, chicken borth, grape juice, blackberry juice, orange juice, orange albumin, whole milk, clabber milk, buttermilk, and artificial buttermilk



Orange Albumin

1 egg white 1 orange (juice)

1 teaspoon sugar 2 tablespoons sugar

Place all ingredients in cup then beat lightly. Albumin may be added in same manner to any of the fruit juices.

Artificial of Home-Made Buttermilk. One quart or less sweet milk. One Junket Brand Buttermilk Tablet. Fresh milk, whole or skimmed as desired, heated to between 160 and 175 degrees F., and heled at such temperature for at leaset twenty minutes, then cool to 100 degrees. Dissolved Junket Tablet in a tablespoon of cold milk or water and add to milk. Leave in warm room until thick, twenty-four to thirty-six hours, then place in regrigerator. When cold “churn” by shaking bottle vigorously, or the milk may be prepared in a fruit jar or pitcher and beaten with spoon or egg beater until smooth. If the acid flavor is too milk, let stand cold another day. Junket Buttermilk may be kept on ice or in refrigerator for a week or longer.

Semi-Liquid Diet. Eggnog, milk toast, all kinds of cereal cooked two or three hours, icecream, sherbet, soft boiled egg, potato soup, tomato soup and chicken soup with rice, junket and gruel.

Ice cream for the sick should be made with little or no sugar:

Vanilla Ice Cream (Individual Rule)

½ cup thin cream ¼ teaspoon vanilla

½ cup milk 1 teaspoon sugar

Speck salt



Grape Sherbet (Six Servings)

2 cups grape juice 1 cup sugar

2 cups water 2 eggs (whites)

Blend grape juice, water and sugar, partly freeze. Beat whites of eggs lightly, add two tablespoons of powdered sugar; add to sherbet and continue freezing until hard.



Plain Junket (Individual Rule)

1 cup milk ¼ junket tablet

2 teaspoons sugar Flavor to taste

Heat milk until luke warm, add flavoring and sugar and when dissolved add junket dissolved in one teaspoon cold water. Pour mixture immediately into sherbet cups, partly fill. Place in warm room until firm like jelly, then put on ice or in cool place, if ice is not being used in household. If desired serve with whipped cream heaped on top and one-half teaspoon bright jelly for garnish.

Semi-Solid Diet. Toast, all kinds of jelly except plum, cottage cheese custards, cooked fruits and raw fruits. Vegetables, bake or mashed, spinach, lettuce, peas and mustard greens. Meats, broiled or baked, breakfast bacon, chicken, fish, lamb chops, beef steak, squirrel and hash.