Broil a thick piece of beef steak three minutes.  Squeeze all the juice with a lemon-squeezer into a cup; salt very lightly, and give like beef tea.

JELLY AND ICE.

Break ice in bits no bigger than a pea.  A large pin will break off bits from a lump very easily.  To a tablespoonful add one of wine jelly broken up.  It is very refreshing in fever.

PANADA.

Lay in a bowl two Boston or graham crackers split; sprinkle on a pinch of salt, and cover with boiling water.  Set the bowl in a saucepan of boiling water, and let it stand half an hour, till the crackers look clear.  Slide into a hot saucer without breaking, and eat with cream and sugar.  As they are only good hot, do just enough for the patient’s appetite at one time.

MILK TOAST.

Toast one or two thin slices of bread; dip quickly in a little salted boiling water, and spread on a little butter.  Boil a teacupful of milk; thicken with a teaspoonful of flour mixed in a little cold water with a pinch of salt; lay the toast in a small, hot, deep plate, and pour over the milk.  Cream toast is made in the same way.

BEEF SANDWICH.

Two or three tablespoonfuls of raw, very tender beef, scraped fine, and spread between two slices of slightly buttered bread.  Sprinkle on pepper and salt.

PREPARED FLOUR.

Tie a pint of flour tightly in a cloth, and boil for four hours.  Scrape off the outer crust, and the inside will be found to be a dry ball.  Grate this as required, allowing one tablespoonful wet in cold milk to a pint of boiling milk, and boiling till smooth.  Add a saltspoonful of salt.  This is excellent for summer complaint, whether in adults or children.  The beaten white of an egg can also be stirred in if ordered.  If this porridge is used from the beginning of the complaint, little or no medicine will be required.

PARCHED RICE.

Roast to a deep brown as you would coffee, and then cook as in rule for boiled rice, p. 199, and eat with cream and sugar.

RICE COFFEE.

Parch as above, and grind.  Allow half a cup to a quart of boiling water, and let it steep fifteen minutes.  Strain, and drink plain, or with milk and sugar.

HERB TEAS.

For the dried herbs allow one teaspoonful to a cup of boiling water.  Pour the water on them; cover, and steep ten minutes or so.  Camomile tea is good for sleeplessness; calamus and catnip for babies’ colic; and cinnamon for hemorrhages and summer complaint.  Slippery-elm and flax-seed are also good for the latter.