BEEF STEAK.

Steak must be cut 3/4 inch thick, and evenly broiled, rare, unless
particularly requested to do otherwise. Be careful not to smoke
it; the grease dropping into the fire may make trouble in this
way.

OATMEAL GRUEL.

Take two large iron tablespoonfuls of oatmeal freshly cooked for
breakfast, add one cup of boiling water, slowly stirring all the
time, then add an equal quantity of milk. Let all boil for ten
minutes, and strain through a fine wire sieve. If you have no
cooked oatmeal put 1/2 cup raw oatmeal in a double boiler with two
cups of boiling water and cook for two hours, then proceed as
above. It makes the gruel richer to add all milk, or 1-1/2 cups of
milk and 1 cup of cream. Be sure not to forget the salt. Never put
any sugar in unless requested to do it by the patient.

KOUMYSS.

Dissolve a third of a cake of compressed yeast (Fleischmann's) in
a little warm water (not hot). Take a quart of milk fresh from the
cow, or warmed to blood heat, add to it a tablespoonful of sugar,
and the dissolved yeast. Put the mixture in beer bottles with
patent stoppers, fill to the neck, cork, and let them stand for
twelve hours where the temperature is about 68 degrees or 70 degrees,
then put the bottles on ice, upside down.

MILK PUNCH.