Junket.—Take ½ pint of fresh milk in a saucepan. Add 1 teaspoonful of essence of pepsin, stir just enough to mix. Pour into custard cups. Let stand until firmly curded. Serve plain or with grated nutmeg. Sherry may be added.
Koumiss.—Heat four cups of milk, then cool; when lukewarm, add ¼ cake of yeast dissolved in one-fourth cup of water, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, pour into bottles with patent stopper, fill bottles only two-thirds full, cork tightly. Shake well, allow to stand on ice twenty-four hours.
Milk Shake.—White of 1 egg, 1 ounce sugar, 1 ounce chipped ice, 1 ounce cream. Shake in milk shaker two minutes. Add milk to fill glass. Flavor with vanilla and lemon.
Mutton Broth.—Boil slowly 1½ pounds of lean loin mutton, including the bone. Add a little salt and ½ onion. Pour broth into a basin. Skim off fat when cool. Warm as used.
Oatmeal Gruel.—One teacup oatmeal flakes, cover with 1 quart cold water. Place on slow fire and soak three hours. Strain, add 4 teaspoonfuls of sugar and 1 teaspoonful of salt.
Oatmeal Water.—Cover 1 teacupful oatmeal with 1 quart cold water. Let it stand two hours. Stir often. Strain. Serve with salt, sugar and ice.
Peptonized Milk. Warm Process.—Dissolve the contents of Fairchild’s peptonizing tube in 4 tablespoonfuls cold water. Add to 1 pint of milk. Put in glass jar, and place jar in vessel of warm water. Heat slowly to 115° F. Stir slowly and allow it to remain thirty minutes. Place on ice at once to check further digestion.
Peptonized Milk. Cold Process.—In a clean quart bottle, put one peptonizing powder (Fairchild). Add 1 teacupful of cold water. Shake. Add 1 pint fresh cold milk. Shake well. Place on ice. Do not heat before using.
Rice Water.—Pick over and wash 2 tablespoonfuls of rice. Put in a saucepan with 1 quart of boiling water; simmer two hours. When rice is dissolved, strain. Add teaspoonful salt. Serve warm or cold. Sherry may be added.
Rum Punch.—Two teaspoonfuls powdered sugar, 1 egg well beaten, warm milk, 1 large wineglassful; 4 ounces Jamaica rum. Flavor with nutmeg.