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LEMON-PEEL WATER.
Pare the rind from a lemon, being careful not to use any of the white or inner part of the rind; put the peelings in a jug, and pour over them a pint of boiling water; cover closely, and when quite cold pour off the liquid, and add a tablespoonful of powdered white sugar; a tablespoonful of good brandy or sherry may be added; a pleasant, cooling, astringent drink, when iced; given in diarrhoea, etc. — Dr. L. M. Tattle.
JELLY WATER.
A dessertspoonful of wild cherry or blackberry jelly; one goblet of ice water; beat up well; excellent in fevers as a drink. — Dr. G. W.Davis.
CURRANT JELLY WATER.
A tablespoonful of currant jelly, thoroughly mixed through half a pint of cold water. A sick person may drink as much as wished of this acid water; a little at a time and often. — Dr. E. L. Draper.
CAUDLE.
Beat up one egg with a wine-glassful of sherry, and add it to half a pint of nice hot gruel; flavor with sugar, nutmeg, and lemon peel. — Dr. N. R. Miller.
EGG LEMONADE.
Into a glass of lemonade stir the unbeaten white of one egg. — Dr. J. M. Patten.
NUTRITIOUS DEMULCENT DRINK.
Mix together half a pint of mucilage acacia and pure milk; sweeten with sugar or honey; and add one tablespoonful of any liquor. — Dr. N. R. Miller.
EGG-NOGG.
Scald some new milk by putting it, contained in a jug, into a sauce-pan of boiling water; but it must not be allowed to boil; when quite cold beat up a fresh egg, with a fork, in a tumbler with some sugar; beat quite to a froth; add a dessertspoonful of brandy, and fill up the tumbler with the scalded milk; this may be used in alternation with beef-tea, or exclusively in acute, inflammatory or febrile diseases; but the interval of its administration should not be shorter than three hours. — Dr. J. C. Hubbard, Dr. N. R. Miller.
MILK FLOUR AND IRON MIXTURE.
Beat up carefully one tablespoonful of flour, one raw egg, and about twenty grains of the saccharated carbonate of iron, with half a pint of new milk; flavor with nutmeg and white sugar; to be taken for lunch with a biscuit. — Dr. N. R. Miller.
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