raisins to boil, if the patient is well enough to bear them. When put
in a bowl, add a little salt, white sugar, and nutmeg.


EGG GRUEL.

This is at once food and medicine. Some people have very great faith
in its efficacy in cases of chronic dysentery. It is made thus: Boil
a pint of new milk; beat four new-laid eggs to a light froth, and pour
in while the milk boils; stir them together thoroughly, but do not
let them boil; sweeten it with the best of loaf sugar, and grate in
a whole nutmeg; add a little salt, if you like it. Drink half of it
while it is warm, and the other half in two hours.


ARROW-ROOT JELLY.

Put about a pint of water in a skillet to boil; stir up a large
spoonful of arrow-root powder in a cup of water; pour it into the
skillet while the water is boiling; let them boil together three or
four minutes. Season it with nutmeg and loaf sugar. This is very
light food for an invalid. When the system is in a relaxed state, two
tea-spoonfuls of brandy may be put in. Milk and loaf sugar boiled, and
a spoonful of fine flour, well mixed with a little cold water, poured
in while the milk is boiling, is light food in cases of similar
diseases.


CALF'S FOOT JELLY.