Arrowroot Wine Jelly+

1 cup boiling water.

2 heaping teaspoonfuls arrowroot. 2 " white sugar.

1 tablespoonful brandy or 3 tablespoonfuls of wine.

An excellent corrective to weak bowels.

Arrowroot Blanc-mange+

1 cupful boiling milk.

2 dessertspoonfuls best arrowroot, rubbed smooth in cold water.

2 teaspoonfuls white sugar. Vanilla or other essence.

Boil until it thickens well, stirring all the while. Eat cold with cream, flavored with rose-water, and sweetened to taste.

Sago May be substituted for arrowroot in any of the foregoing receipts, when you have soaked it an hour in water poured over it cold, and gradually warmed by setting the cup containing it in hot water. Boil rather longer than you do the arrowroot.

Sago Gruel+

2 cups water.

2 tablespoonfuls sago.

3 teaspoonfuls white sugar. 1 glass of wine.

1 tablespoonful lemon juice. Nutmeg to taste, and a pinch of salt.

Put the sago in the water while cold, and warm by setting in a saucepan of boiling water. Stir often, and let it soften and heat for one hour. Then boil ten minutes, stirring all the while; add the sugar, wine, and lemon, and pour into a bowl or mould to cool. Eat warm, if preferred. The wine and nutmeg should be omitted if the patient be feverish.

Indian Meal Gruel+

2 quarts of boiling water. , 1 cup of Indian meal, and

1 tablespoonful flour, wet up with cold water. Salt to taste - and, if you like, sugar and nutmeg.

Wet the meal and flour to a smooth paste, and stir into the water while it is actually boiling. Boil slowly one hour, stirring up well from the bottom. Season with salt to taste. Some sweeten it, but I like it better with a little pepper added to the salt.

If a cathartic is desired, omit the wheat flour altogether.

Oatmeal Gruel Is made in the same way.

Milk And Rice Gruel

1 quart boiling milk.

2 tablespoonfuls (heaping) of ground rice, wet with cold milk.

1 saltspoonful of salt.

Stir in the rice-paste and boil ten minutes, stirring all the while. Season with sugar and nutmeg, and eat warm with cream.

You may use Indian meal instead of rice-flour, which is an astringent. In this case, boil an hour.

Dried Flour For Teething Children

1 cup of flour, tied in a stout muslin bag and dropped into cold water, then set over the fire.

Boil three hours steadily. Turn out the flour ball and dry in the hot sun all day; or, if you need it at once, dry in a moderate oven without shutting the door.

To use it -

Grate a tablespoonful for a cupful of boiling milk and water (half and half). Wet up the flour with a very little cold water, stir in and boil five minutes. Put in a little salt.

Tapioca Jelly. + (Very good.)

1 cup of tapioca.

3 cups of cold water.

Juice of a lemon, and a pinch of the grated peel. Sweeten to taste.

Soak the tapioca in the water four hours. Set within a saucepan of boiling water; pour more lukewarm water over the tapioca if it has absorbed too much of the liquid, and heat, stirring frequently. If too thick after it begins to clear, put in a very little boiling water. When quite clear, put in the sugar and lemon. Pour into moulds. Eat cold, with cream flavored with rose-water and sweetened.