Cookery for invalids, persons of delicate digestion, and for children / by Mary Hooper.

  • Mary Hooper
Date:
1879
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Credit: Cookery for invalids, persons of delicate digestion, and for children / by Mary Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sherry, sugar to taste, and a grate of nutmeg and ginger. For the poor ale may be substituted for wine, and in cases where it is desirable a little gin be added. Oatmeal Gruel. This is not adapted to cases of great weakness, but is useful in temporary illness, and is much in favour with the poor in rural districts. Unless long and properly boiled, oatmeal gruel is very indigestible. Take two tablespoonfuls of fine Scotch oatmeal, and mix it smooth in two or three tablespoonfuls of cold water ; stir it in to a pint and a half of milk or water, boil gently for at least an hour, stirring frequently. If the digestion of the patient is weak, the gruel should be strained before serving. Oatmeal Gruel. (Scotch Recipe.) Put two ounces of oatmeal in a bowl, pour on it half a pint of cold water, stir a little, let it stand a
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