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### Human: Several Ways of Preparing Chickens for the Sick ### Assistant: _Chicken tea_ is made by boiling any part of the chicken, and using the broth weak with only a little salt. _Chicken broth_ is made by boiling a chicken a good deal, and skimming very thoroughly and seasoning with salt. A little rice, or pearl b...
### Human: Milk Porridge ### Assistant: Make a thin batter with Indian meal and wheat flour, a spoonful of each, and pour it into a quart of boiling milk and water, equal portions of each. Salt it to the taste. Boil ten minutes.
### Human: Rice Gruel, and Oatmeal Gruel ### Assistant: Make a thin paste of ground rice or Indian meal, and pour into boiling water, or boiling milk and water. Let the rice boil up once, but the corn meal must boil half an hour. Season with salt, sugar, and nutmeg. A little cream is a great improvement.
### Human: Arrowroot and Tapioca Gruels ### Assistant: Jamaica arrowroot is the best. Make a thin paste, and pour into boiling water, and flavor with sugar, salt, and nutmeg. A little lemon juice improves it. Tapioca must be soaked in twice the quantity of water over night, then add milk and water, and boil till it is...
### Human: Dropped Egg ### Assistant: Salt some boiling water, and drop in it a raw egg out of the shell, taking care not to break the yolk; take it up as soon as the white is hardened. Dip some toast in hot water, and put salt or butter on to it, and lay the egg on the top.
### Human: Wheat Gruel for Young Children with weak stomachs, or for Invalids ### Assistant: Tie half a pint of wheat flour in thick cotton, and boil it three or four hours; then dry the lump and grate it when you use it. Prepare a gruel of it by making a thin paste, and pouring it into boiling milk and water, and flav...
### Human: Another Panada ### Assistant: Boil a mixture of one-fourth wine, and three-fourths water, and flavor it with nutmeg or lemon. Stir in grated bread or crackers, and let it boil up once.
### Human: Herb Drinks ### Assistant: Balm tea is often much relished by the sick. Sage tea also is good. Balm, sage, and sorrel, mixed with sliced lemon and boiling water poured on, and then sweetened, is a fine drink. Pennyroyal makes a good drink to promote perspiration. Herb drinks must often be renewed, as they g...
### Human: Other Simple Drinks ### Assistant: Pour boiling water on to tamarinds, or mashed cranberries, or mashed whortleberries, then pour off the water and sweeten it. Add a little wine if allowed. Toast bread very brown, and put it in cold water, and it is often relished. Pour boiling water on to bread toasted ver...
### Human: Cream Tartar Whey ### Assistant: Warm a pint of fresh milk, when scalding hot, stir in a teaspoonful of cream tartar, and if this does not turn it, add more, till it does. Strain it, and sweeten with loaf sugar. Those who cannot eat wine whey can eat this without trouble, and it is good in fevers.
### Human: Simple Wine Whey ### Assistant: Mix equal quantities of water, milk, and white wine. Warm the milk and water, and then add the wine. Sweeten it to the taste.
### Human: A great Favorite with Invalids ### Assistant: Take one third brisk cider and two thirds water, sweeten it, and crumb in toasted bread, or toasted crackers, and grate on nutmeg. Acid jellies will answer for this, when cider cannot be obtained.
### Human: A New Way of making Barley Water ### Assistant: Put two tablespoonfuls of pearl barley into a quart jug, two great spoonfuls of white sugar, a small pinch of salt, a small bit of orange, or lemon peel, and a glass of calve’s foot jelly, and then fill the jug with _boiling_ water. Shake it, and then let it st...
### Human: Panada ### Assistant: Take two crackers, pour on boiling water, and let it simmer five minutes; beat up an egg, sweeten and flavor it to your taste, and then put the cracker to it.
### Human: Arrowroot Blanc Mange ### Assistant: Take two tablespoonfuls of arrowroot to one quart of milk, and a pinch of salt. Scald the milk, sweeten it, and then stir in the arrowroot, which must first be wet up with some of the milk. Let it boil up once. Orange water, rose water, or lemon peel, can be used to flavo...
### Human: Rice Flour Blanc Mange ### Assistant: Four tablespoonfuls of ground rice and a pinch of salt wet up with a little milk and stirred into a quart of boiling milk. Rub the rind of a lemon with hard, refined sugar, till all the oil is absorbed, and use the sugar to sweeten to your taste. Boil, stirring well, for...
### Human: Another Receipt for American Isinglass Jelly ### Assistant: One ounce of gelatine, or American isinglass. Three pints of boiling water. A pound and a half of loaf sugar. Three lemons, cut in slices, leaving out the peel of one. The whites of four eggs, cut to a stiff froth. Soak the isinglass half an ho...
### Human: Tapioca Jelly ### Assistant: One cup full of tapioca. Wash it two or three times, soak it in water, for five or six hours. Then simmer it in the same water in which it has been soaked, with a pinch of salt and bits of fresh lemon peel, until it becomes transparent. Then add lemon juice, wine, and loaf sugar...
### Human: Caudle ### Assistant: To rice, or water gruel, add a wine-glass of wine, or ale, and season with nutmeg and sugar.
### Human: Sago Jelly ### Assistant: Soak a tea-cup full of sago in cold water, half an hour, then pour off the water, and add fresh, and soak it another half hour; and then boil it slowly with a pinch of salt, a stick of cinnamon, or a bit of orange, or lemon peel, stirring constantly. When thickened, add wine and whi...
### Human: Spiced Chocolate ### Assistant: One quart of milk. Two squares of chocolate. One stick of cinnamon. A little nutmeg. Grate the chocolate. Boil the milk, reserving a little cold to moisten the chocolate, which must be mixed perfectly smooth to a thin paste. When the milk boils (in which the cinnamon must ...
### Human: Barley Water ### Assistant: Put two ounces of pearl barley to half a pint of boiling water, and let it simmer five minutes; pour off the water, and add two quarts of boiling water, add two ounces sliced figs, two of stoned raisins, and boil till it is reduced to a quart. Strain it for drink.
### Human: Water Gruel ### Assistant: To two quarts of boiling water, add one gill of Indian meal and a heaped tablespoonful of flour, made into a paste and stirred in the water. Let it boil slowly twenty minutes. Salt, sugar, and nutmeg to the taste. Oatmeal makes a fine gruel in the same way.
### Human: Beef Tea ### Assistant: Broil a pound of tender, juicy beef ten minutes, salt and pepper it, cut it in small pieces, pour on a pint of boiling water, steep it half an hour, and then pour it off to drink. Another way is slower, but better. Cut the beef in small pieces, fill a junk bottle with them, and keep i...
### Human: Tomato Syrup ### Assistant: Express the juice of ripe tomatoes, and put a pound of sugar to each quart of the juice, put it in bottles, and set it aside. In a few weeks it will have the appearance and flavor of pure wine of the best kind, and mixed with water is a delightful beverage for the sick. No alcohol...
### Human: Arrowroot Custard for Invalids ### Assistant: One tablespoonful of arrowroot. One pint of milk. One egg. One tablespoonful of sugar. Mix the arrowroot with a little of the cold milk, put the milk into a sauce-pan over the fire, and when it boils, stir in the arrowroot and the egg and sugar, well beaten to...
### Human: Sago for Invalids ### Assistant: Wash one large spoonful of sago, boil it in a little water, with a pinch of salt and one or two sticks of cinnamon, until it looks clear; then add a pint of milk, boil all well together, and sweeten with loaf sugar.
### Human: Rice Jelly ### Assistant: Make a thin paste of two ounces of rice flour, and three ounces of loaf sugar, and boil them in a quart of water till transparent. Flavor with rose, orange, or cinnamon water. It can be made also by boiling whole rice long and slowly. A pinch of salt improves it.
### Human: Sassafras Jelly ### Assistant: Take the pith of sassafras boughs, break it in small pieces, and let it soak in cold water till the water becomes glutinous. It has the flavor of sassafras, and is much relished by the sick, and is also good nourishment.
### Human: Buttermilk Whey ### Assistant: One quart of good buttermilk. When boiling, beat up the yolk of an egg, and stir in, and, if it can be allowed, some thick cream, or a little butter. Then beat the white to a stiff froth and stir in. Sugar and spice if liked.
### Human: Alum Whey ### Assistant: Mix half an ounce of pounded alum with one pint of milk. Strain it, and add sugar and nutmeg to the whey. It is good in cases of hemorrhages, and sometimes for colic.
### Human: Another Wine Whey ### Assistant: One pint of boiling milk. Two wine-glasses of wine. Boil them one moment, stirring. Take out the curd, and sweeten and flavor the whey.
### Human: Mulled Wine ### Assistant: One pint of wine and one pint of water. Beat eight eggs and add to the above, while boiling, stirring rapidly. As soon as it begins to boil it is done.
### Human: Tamarind Whey ### Assistant: Mix an ounce of tamarind pulp with a pint of milk, strain it, and add a little white sugar to the whey. _Egg Tea and Egg Coffee_ (_very fine_). Beat the yolk of an egg with a great spoonful of sugar, and put it to a tea-cup of cold tea or cold coffee. Add a half a tea-cup of w...
### Human: Cranberry Tea ### Assistant: Wash ripe cranberries, mash them, pour boiling water on them, and then strain off the water and sweeten it, and grate on nutmeg.
### Human: Apple Tea ### Assistant: Take good pippins, slice them thin, pour on boiling water, and let it stand some time. Pour off the water, and sweeten and flavor it.
### Human: Egg and Milk ### Assistant: Beat the yolk of an egg into a great spoonful of white sugar, or more. Add a coffee cup of good milk, then beat the white of the egg to a stiff froth, and stir it in. A little wine, or nutmeg to flavor it.
### Human: Sago Milk ### Assistant: Soak one ounce of sago in a pint of cold water an hour. Pour off the water, and add a pint and a half of new milk. Simmer it slowly till the sago and milk are well mixed. Flavor with sugar, nutmeg, and wine.
### Human: Tapioca Milk ### Assistant: Made like sago milk, only not boiled so long.
### Human: Bread and Milk ### Assistant: Take a slice of good bread and soak it in milk, and then put on a little butter, and it is often very acceptable to the sick. In some cases sprinkle a little salt on instead of butter.
### Human: Egg Gruel ### Assistant: Beat the yolk of an egg with a spoonful of white sugar, and then beat the white separately, to a stiff froth. Pour water when boiling to the yolk, then stir in the white and add spice, or any seasoning, to suit the taste. When a person has taken a violent cold, after being warm in be...
### Human: Ground Rice Gruel ### Assistant: Take two tablespoonfuls of ground rice, and a pinch of salt, and mix it with milk enough for a thin batter. Stir it with a pint of boiling water, or boiling milk, and flavor with sugar and spice.
### Human: Oatmeal Gruel ### Assistant: Four tablespoonfuls of _grits_ (coarse oatmeal) and a pinch of salt, into a pint of boiling water. Strain and flavor it while warm. Or, take fine oatmeal and make a thin batter with a little cold water, and pour it into a sauce-pan of boiling water.
### Human: Simple Barley Water ### Assistant: Take two ounces and a half of pearl barley, cleanse it, and boil it ten minutes in half a pint of water. Strain out this water and add two quarts of boiling water, and boil it down to one quart. Then strain it, and flavor it with slices of lemon and sugar, or sugar and nutm...
### Human: Compound Barley Water ### Assistant: Take two pints of simple barley water, a pint of hot water, two and a half ounces of sliced figs, half an ounce of liquorice root sliced and bruised, and two ounces and a half of raisins. Boil all down to two pints, and strain it. This is slightly aperient.
### Human: Cream Tartar Beverage ### Assistant: Take two even teaspoonfuls of cream tartar, and pour on a pint of boiling water, and flavor it with white sugar and lemon peel to suit the taste. If this is too acid, add more _boiling_ water, as cold, or lukewarm water, is not so good.
### Human: Seidlitz Powders ### Assistant: Two drachms of Rochelle salts, and two scruples of bicarbonate of soda, in a white paper; thirty-five grains of tartaric acid in a blue one. Dissolve that in the white paper in nearly half a tumbler of water, then add the other powder, dissolved in another half tumbler of wat...
### Human: Blackberry Syrup, for Cholera and Summer Complaint ### Assistant: Two quarts of blackberry juice. One pound of loaf sugar. Half an ounce of nutmegs. A quarter of an ounce of cloves. Half an ounce of cinnamon. Half an ounce of allspice. Pulverize the spice, and boil all for fifteen or twenty minutes. Wh...
### Human: Remarks on the Combinations of Cooking ### Assistant: The preceding receipts have been tested by the best housekeepers. In reviewing them, it will be seen that there are several ways of combining the various articles, all of which have, in the hands of good housekeepers, proved successful. Still it will be f...
### Human: Articles used in Making Cheese ### Assistant: The articles used in making cheese are, a large tub, painted inside and outside, to hold the milk, a large brass kettle to heat it, a cheese basket, cheese hooks, cheese ladders, strainers of loose linen cloth, and a cheese press. It is indispensable that all th...
### Human: Mode of Preparing the Rennet ### Assistant: Do not remove any part of the curd that may be found in the rennet (which is the stomach of a calf), as it is the best part. Take out everything mixed with the curd in the stomach. Soak the rennet in a quart of water, then hang it to dry, where flies will not reach...
### Human: To Make Cheese ### Assistant: Strain the milk into the tub, keeping in all the cream. Heat a portion, and then add it to the cold, till the whole is raised to 98° or 100° Fahrenheit; no more and no less. Then put in the rennet, stirring well, and take enough to have the curd form well in an hour. If it does ...
### Human: To Scald the Curd ### Assistant: Cut, or chop the curd into cakes the fourth of an inch in size, put it in the strainer, and immerse it in the brass kettle of warm water, enough to cover it. Then raise the temperature to 105°. Stir it well till warmed through, say half an hour. Then gradually add cold water,...
### Human: Directions for making Butter ### Assistant: Two particulars are indispensable to success in making _good_ butter; the first is, that the churning be frequent, so that the cream will not grow bitter, or sour; and the second is _cleanliness_ in all the implements and processes connected with it. In hot weathe...
### Human: Directions for Preserving Fruits and Vegetables ### Assistant: Blackberries, whortleberries, currants, raspberries, peaches, plums, apples, pears, and quinces, can all be preserved by drying them in the sun, and then storing them in bags in a cool, dry place. Green currants, and green gooseberries, can be p...
### Human: Setting the Table ### Assistant: The table should be set early in the forenoon, by the waiter, under the direction of the lady of the house, and in the manner exhibited in Fig. 7. The table rug must first be laid exactly square with the room, and the tables also set exactly parallel with the sides of the ro...
### Human: Taking up the Dinner ### Assistant: Such a dinner as this cannot usually be prepared and served easily, without two to cook and serve in the kitchen, and two waiters in the dining-room. One waiter will answer, if he is experienced and expert in such matters. When the hour for dinner arrives, let the cook fi...
### Human: Tea Parties and Evening Company ### Assistant: In one respect, fashion has aided to relieve a housekeeper of much care in providing evening entertainments. It is now fashionable to spread a table for evening parties, and not to serve tea and coffee, as was formerly done. As this is the easiest, and most rati...
### Human: Directions for the Cook ### Assistant: _Sunday._--Rise as early as on other days. No work is to be done that can be properly avoided. _Monday._--Rise early in hot weather, to have the cool of the day for work. Try to have everything done in the best manner. See that the clothes line is brought in at night, ...
### Human: Directions for the Chambermaid ### Assistant: Sweep the sitting-room before breakfast on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Wednesday, give all the chambers a thorough sweeping, and wash down the stairs. Thursday, sweep the bedroom and nursery, and wipe the paint. Put up the clean clothes, after the cook folds them. ...
### Human: Odds and Ends ### Assistant: There are certain _odds and ends_, where every housekeeper will gain much by having a _regular time_ to attend to them. Let this time be the last Saturday forenoon in every month, or any other time more agreeable, but let there be a _regular fixed time_ once a month, in which the...
### Human: Kitchen Furniture ### Assistant: The kitchen floor should be covered with an oil cloth. Carpets, or bits of carpet, are not so good, because of the grease and filth that must accumulate in them, and the labor of sweeping, shaking, and cleansing them. Nothing is cleansed so easily as an oil cloth, and it is m...
### Human: Weights and Measures ### Assistant: It is a good plan to have a particular measure cup kept for the purpose, and after once weighing all those receipts that are given by weight, to _measure_ the quantity by this cup, and then write the measures in your receipt book, and keep the cup only for this purpose. Th...
### Human: Avoirdupois Weight ### Assistant: Sixteen drachms make an ounce. Sixteen ounces make a pound. Twenty-eight pounds make a quarter. Four quarters make a hundred. Twenty hundred make a ton.
### Human: Apothecaries’ Weight ### Assistant: Twenty grains make a scruple. Three scruples make a drachm. Eight drachms make an ounce. Twelve ounces make a pound.
### Human: On Purchasing Wood ### Assistant: Wood that is straight and solid makes more in a load, and is the most profitable. A cord of small crooked sticks does not contain half the wood there is in a load of solid logs. The best wood for fires is the hickory, hard maple, white ash, black birch, yellow birch, beech...
### Human: Items of Advice ### Assistant: If you keep an account of your stores, and the dates when they are bought, you can know exactly how fast they are used, and when they are wasted, or stolen. Stale bread is improved by steaming it half an hour or more. Grate up dry cheese, and cheese crusts, moisten it with wi...
### Human: To make nice Crayons for Blackboards ### Assistant: These directions are given by Prof. Turner, of the American Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb, as follows: “Take 5 pounds of Paris white, 1 pound of Wheat flour, wet with water, and knead it well; make it so stiff that it will not stick to the table, but not so...
### Human: Stewed Beef ### Assistant: Take a shank or hock of beef, with all the meat belonging to it, and put it into a pot full of water early in the morning and throw in a tablespoonful of salt. Let it simmer _very_ slowly, till the beef is soft, and cleaves from the bone, and the water is reduced to about two quart...
### Human: Tomato Beef ### Assistant: Stew a shank or hock of beef as above, except you put in nine or ten peeled tomatoes instead of potatoes and sweet herbs, and also leave out the bread. Some would add a little chopped onion. This is excellent and a very healthful mode of preparing beef, especially if it is tough.
### Human: A good Way to use Cold Rice ### Assistant: Heat the rice in milk, add a well-beaten egg or two, a little salt, butter, and sugar, let it boil up once, and then grate on nutmeg.
### Human: To prepare Good Toast ### Assistant: Toast the bread very quick, dip each slice in boiling water as soon as you have toasted it, and then lay thin bits of butter over. Cover and keep hot as you proceed. A _tin bonnet_ is very useful for this. Make milk toast in the same way, keeping the milk at nearly boilin...
### Human: A Good Pudding ### Assistant: Line a buttered dish with slices of wheat bread, first dipped in milk. Fill the dish with sliced apple, and add sugar and spice. Cover with slices of bread soaked in milk, cover close with a plate, and bake three hours.
### Human: Loaf Pudding ### Assistant: When bread is too stale, put a loaf in a pudding-bag and boil it in salted water an hour and a half, and eat it with hard pudding sauce.
### Human: A Plain Lemon Pudding ### Assistant: Nine spoonfuls of grated apple, one grated lemon, (peel and pulp,) half a cup of butter, and three eggs. Mix and bake, with or without a crust, about an hour. Cream improves it.
### Human: An Excellent Indian Pudding without Eggs ### Assistant: Take seven heaping spoonfuls of Indian meal, half a teaspoonful of salt, two spoonfuls of butter or sweet lard, a teacup of molasses, and two teaspoonfuls of ginger or cinnamon, to the taste. Pour into these a quart of milk while boiling hot. Mix well, ...
### Human: Pork and Potato Balls ### Assistant: Take one-third chopped salt pork or ham, either raw or cooked, and two-thirds of cold cooked potatoes chopped fine. Mix them up with egg, _a little_ salt and pepper, and then make into balls and fry, or merely cook in a skillet. Chop cold potatoes fine, and then add some...
### Human: Oyster Pie ### Assistant: Make a crust by working flour into mashed boiled potatoes with a little salt. Line a deep dish with it, invert a small teacup in the middle to hold the juice in and to hold up the upper crust. Put in the oysters with a little pepper and butter, and dredge in some flour. Cover with c...
### Human: Green Corn Patties (like Oysters) ### Assistant: Twelve ears of sweet corn grated. (Yellow corn will do, but not so well.) One teaspoonful of salt and one of pepper. One egg beaten into two tablespoonfuls of flour. Mix, make into small cakes, and fry brown in butter or sweet lard.
### Human: Ohio Wedding Cake (Mrs. K.) ### Assistant: Two pounds of flour. One pound of butter. One pound of sugar--brown is best. Two pounds of currants or one of raisins. Ten eggs. Two teacups of molasses. One gill of wine, and one of brandy. One gill of cream, spice and citron to the taste. Mix the butter an...
### Human: Best Way of making Corn Cakes of all Sorts ### Assistant: There is often a sharp and strong taste to corn meal, which is remedied by wetting it up the day before it is used. The best kind of corn cakes are made by wetting up a large quantity of Indian meal with milk, and letting it stand for several days. Ta...
### Human: Molasses Candy ### Assistant: As all children are fond of this article, the following directions may be acceptable. Boil the molasses (maple is the best) till it will, if dropped in cold water, become crisp. Then, for each quart, put into it an even teaspoonful of salaratus dissolved in a little warm water, ...
### Human: To make Simple Cerate ### Assistant: Melt together equal quantities of white wax and spermaceti, and then add an equal quantity of sweet oil, or a little more. Never use rancid oil.
### Human: Best Remedy for Burns ### Assistant: Pound and sift _wood soot_, and mix it with sweet lard, and apply it, spread on linen rags. It will ease a burn quicker than anything. If the skin is off, the great thing is to keep it covered close from the air. If the burns are large and bad, give salts or cream tartar ...
### Human: Ginger Tea ### Assistant: Pour half a pint of boiling water on to a teaspoonful of ginger; add sugar and milk to the taste.
### Human: Indian Bannock ### Assistant: Take one pint of Indian meal, and stir into it a pint of sour milk, half a teaspoonful of salt, a spoonful of molasses, and a spoonful of melted butter. Beat two eggs and add, and then stir in a pint of wheat flour. Then thin it with milk to the consistency of drop cakes, and wh...
### Human: Egg and Bread ### Assistant: Put bread crumbs into a sauce pan, with cream, salt, and pepper, and a little grated nutmeg. When the bread has absorbed the cream, break in eight eggs and fry it like an omelet, or bake it in buttered tins, or muffin rings.
### Human: Floating Island ### Assistant: Beat the whites of eggs till _very_ stiff, then put in one tablespoonful of some acid jelly for each white, and beat it a good while. Boil rich sweetened milk, and put it in a glass dish, and _when cold_, put the jelly and eggs on the top.
### Human: A New Mode of cooking Cucumbers ### Assistant: Pare them, cut them in quarters lengthwise, dip them in corn meal or wheat flour, pepper and salt them, and then fry them brown, and they are very fine. * * * * * Transcriber's Notes Obvious typographical errors have been sile...