Chapter 10

Pan-broiled steak No. 2

Roast beef

Smothered beef

Vegetables with stewed beef

Stewed beef

Mutton

Cause of Strong flavor of

Recipes:

Boiled leg of mutton

Broiled chops

Pot roast lamb

Roast mutton

Stewed mutton

Stewed mutton chop

Stewed mutton chop No. 2

Veal and lamb

Poultry and game

Suggestions for the selection of poultry and game

To dress poultry and birds

To truss a fowl or bird

To stuff a fowl or bird

Recipes:

Birds baked in sweet potatoes

Boiled fowl

Broiled birds

Broiled fowl

Corn and chicken

Pigeons, quails and partridges

Roast chicken

Roast turkey

Smothered chicken

Steamed chicken

Stewed chicken

Fish, two classes of

Difference in nutritive value

Flavor and wholesomeness

Poison fish

Parasites in fish

Fish as a brain food

Salted fish

Shellfish, (Oysters, Clams, Lobsters, Crabs)

Not possessed of high nutritive value

Natural scavengers

Poisonous mussels

How to select and prepare fish

Frozen fish

Methods of cooking

Recipes:

Baked fish

Broiled fish

Meat soup

Preparation of stock

Selection of material for stock

Quantity of materials needed

Uses of scraps

Extracting the juice

Temperature of the water to be used

Correct proportion of water

Time required for cooking

Straining the stock

To remove the fat

Simple Stock or broth

Compound stock or double broth

To clarify soup stock

Recipes:

Asparagus soup

Barley, rice, sago or tapioca soup

Caramel for coloring soup brown

Julienne soup

Tomato soup

White soup

Vermicelli or macaroni soup

Puree with chicken

Tapioca cream soup

Table Topics.

Food for the Sick

Need of care in the preparation of food for the sick

What constitutes proper food for the sick

Knowledge of dietetics an important factor in the education of every woman

No special dishes for all cases

Hot buttered toast and rich jellies objectionable

The simplest food the best

Scrupulous neatness in serving important

To coax a capricious appetite

A "purple" dinner

A "yellow" dinner

To facilitate the serving of hot foods

Cooking utensils

Gruel

Long-continued cooking needed

Use of the double boiler in the cooking of gruels

Gruel strainer

Recipes:

Arrowroot gruel

Barley gruel

Egg gruel

Egg gruel No. 2

Farina gruel

Flour gruel

Gluten gruel

Gluten gruel No. 2

Gluten cream

Gluten meal gruel

Graham gruel

Graham grits gruel

Gruel of prepared flour

Indian meal gruel

Lemon oatmeal gruel

Milk oatmeal gruel

Milk porridge

Oatmeal gruel

Oatmeal gruel No. 2

Oatmeal gruel No. 3

Peptonized gluten gruel

Raisin gruel

Rice water

Preparations of milk

Milk diet

Advantages of

Quantity of milk needed

Digestibility of milk

Recipes:

Albumenized milk

Hot milk

Junket, or curded milk

Koumiss

Milk and lime water

Peptonized milk for infants

Beef tea, broths, etc.

Nutritive value

Testimony of Dr. Austin Flint

Recipes:

Beef extract

Beef juice

Beef tea

Beef tea and eggs

Beef broth and oatmeal

Bottled beef tea

Chicken broth

Mutton broth

Vegetable broth

Vegetable broth No. 2

Mixed vegetable broth

Recipes for Panada:

Broth panada

Chicken panada

Egg panada

Milk panada

Raisin panada

Grains for the sick

Recipes:

Gluten mush

Tomato gluten

Tomato gluten No. 2

Meats for the sick

Importance of simple preparation

Recipes:


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