WATKINS COOK BOOK

Food for Invalids

The preparation and serving of food is of especial importance in
illness. Food for invalids should be perfectly cooked, attractively
served, suited to the digestive powers of the patient.

All food is changed into liquid during the process of digestion, before
it can be absorbed into the blood. Liquid food can, therefore, be
digested with the smallest amount of exertion to the body.

Arrange the tray as daintily as possible. Use the best china. Serve
hot dishes hot; cold dishes cold.

Serve one course at a time. Have surprises in store.

In contagious diseases all dishes, plates, silver, etc., should be steri-
lized.

EGG NOG OATMEAL GRUEL

A tablespoon sugar lg cup oatmeal (pounded)
34 cup milk 11% quarts water

ege : : lg cup cream
1 tablespoon Watkins Vanilla 2 teaspoons salt

Few grains salt

Beat egg well; add sugar, beat
again; add remaining ingre-
dients. Serve very cold in glass.

Cook oatmeal in the water
and salt for 3 hours or more.
Strain. Add cream. Valuable in
anaemic cases.

BEEF TEA

Free a pound of lean beef from CORN MEAL GRUEL
fat, skin, etc. Chop beef fine. . Mix 2 tablespoons of corn
Put into a pint of cold water for meal, tablespoon of flour, tea-
two hours. Simmer for three spoon of salt, teaspoon of sugar,
hours but do not let boil. Make into a thin paste with a little
up for water lost by adding cold water. Add quart of boil-
eoldi watec.-.>Press and strain. ing water and cook three hours.
The best meats for beef tea are Add cup of milk and serve.
the round and rump. Cold water
draws out the albumen; boiling SOFT CUSTARD
water coagulates it. 1 pint ae scalded

2 egg yolks

Cut thin, juicy meat into 1 teaspoon Watkins Vanilla
pieces one and one-half inches Speck of salt
square; broil one and one-half Beat the eggs, add sugar and
minutes over a hot fire. Squeeze salt and scalded milk slowly.
with a hot lemon squeezer; Cook in a double boiler, stirring

season with salt and pepper.

c constantly until the mixture
May be added to milk or poured y

coats the spoon. Add flavoring.

over toast.
TOAST WATER SCRAMBLED EGGS
Equal measures of toasted Allow 1 tablespoon of milk for
stale bread and boiling water. each egg, slightly beaten. Pour
Let stand one hour. Season, in a buttered pan. Cook until
strain, serve hot or cold. creamy, stirring and _ scraping
Given in extreme cases of from the bottom of the pan as
nausea. it thickens.

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