Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Arrowroot. ✠

• 1 cup of boiling water.
• 1 cup fresh milk.
• 2 teaspoonfuls best Bermuda arrowroot, wet with cold water.
• 1 small pinch of salt.
• 2 even teaspoonfuls white sugar, dissolved in the milk.

Stir the arrowroot paste into the salted boiling water; stir and boil five minutes or until it is clear; add the sweetened milk, and boil ten minutes, slowly, still stirring.

If the child has fever, or cannot digest milk, substitute hot water for it. It is, however, a dangerous experiment to forbid milk altogether for an infant. I should rather diminish the quantity, putting in, say, one-third or one-fourth as much as the receipt names, and filling up with boiling water.