Mix enough water to two heaping tea-spoonfuls of rice flour to make a
thin paste; then add to it a coffee-cupful of boiling-water. Sweeten to
taste with loaf-sugar. Boil it until it is transparent. Flavor by
boiling with it a stick of cinnamon if the jelly is intended for a
patient with summer complaint; or add, instead, several drops of
lemon-juice if intended for a patient with fever. Mold it.
Vanilla should never be used for flavoring any dish for an invalid.
Homeopathic books can never say enough about its poisonous effects on
even healthy and _robust_ persons.