Tropical home nursing / by R.J. Blackham.

  • Robert J. Blackham
Date:
1921
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Tropical home nursing / by R.J. Blackham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AT Se Butter :—Good butter should be of a yellow colour, which deepens with the richness of the pasture. Cows kept in the house on hay or dry food give an inferior product, whilst buffalo cream always yields a dead white butter. Various substances are added to increase, or produce, the popular colour. As an article of food, butter pene invalids with the principal part of their fatty food: itisextremely palatable and digestible when fresh and of good quality. Ghee, or clarified butter, takes the place of butter in the dietary of most Indians. Itis a wholesome and nutri- tious fat, but the peculiar flavour does not appeal to i uropeans, THE VEGETABLE Foops. The following are the vegetable foods used in invalid dietary, 1. Bvread.—This can be manufactured in a variety of ways, but all methods aim at the aeration of a mixture of flour and water and subsequent cooking at a temperature of about 460° F. A good sample of bread should be light and spongy, the crumb being well permeated with little cavities. It should not be either acid to the taste, bitter, or moist. When set aside, the lower part should not become sodden. 2. Oatmeal_—Oatmeal is the most nutritious of. all cereals. Itis very richin fat. Oats prepared by rolling instead of grinding and heated during the rolling process, are much more digestible and easily cooked than ordinary oatmeal. Prepared in this way, the cereal constitutes the preparation of oats, largely advertised under various fancy names, which are so deservedly popular.
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