Scrape very fine two or three table-spoonfuls of fresh, juicy, _tender_,
uncooked beef; season it slightly with pepper and salt; spread it
between two thin slices of slightly buttered bread; cut it neatly into
little diamonds about two and a half inches long and an inch wide.
PREPARED FLOUR FOR SUMMER COMPLAINTS (_Mrs. Horace Mann_).
Tie up a pint of flour very tightly in a cloth, and put it into boiling
water, and let it boil three hours. When untied, the gluten of the flour
will be found in a mass on the outside of the ball. Remove this, and the
inside will prove a dry powder which is very astringent. Grate this, and
wet a portion of it in cold milk. Boil a pint of milk, and when it is at
the boiling-point stir in as much of the wet mixture as will thicken it
to the quality of palatable porridge. Stir in a little salt, and let
this be the article of diet until the disease is removed. Relieve it at
first by toasted bread, or a mutton broth, which latter is also
astringent. If the disease has not progressed to the degree of
inflammation, this diet will generally preclude all need of medicine.
The author would also add, for a change of diet, well-boiled rice with a
little cream, parched rice, beef juice, toasted water or milk crackers,
a little tea (avoiding generally too much liquid), and a little
wild-cherry brandy; or to Mrs. Mann’s flour porridge, when cooked, and
just taken hot from the fire, the well-beaten white of an egg might be
added; and, after stirring them well together, the preparation should be
served immediately.