“Supper.—Full Diets: Chowder or boiled eggs, bread and butter, tea, fruit. Half Diets: Oatmeal jelly, toast, tea, fruit.
SATURDAY.
“Breakfast.—Full Diets: Indian meal porridge and maple syrup or milk, beef ragout, bread and butter, coffee. Half Diets: Indian porridge, toast, coffee.
“Dinner.—Full Diets: Soup, bread, steak, potatoes, cauliflower or squash. Half Diets: Chicken broth, toast, rice, rennet custard, blanc mange.
“Supper.—Full Diets: Lamb stew or baked beans, bread and butter, tea, fruit. Half Diets: Wheat flakes and milk, toast, tea, fruit.
“Food which may be ordered by resident or attending physician when daily diet is not adequate or suitable: Beef steak, chops, chicken, beef jelly, chicken jelly, scraped beef balls, raw beef sandwiches, clam broth, crackers, extra eggs and milk, gruels, oatmeal jelly, wine or fruit jelly, cold beef extract, made with hydrochloric acid.”—Practical Dietetics.—Thompson.
MENUS FOR NITROGENOUS DIET.
A nitrogenous diet is one in which the use of starchy foods is greatly restricted, if not entirely forbidden. Sugars and acids are also prohibited in many cases. This diet is used chiefly in certain forms of digestive disorder and occasionally in some general diseases. Bread is usually allowed in the form of zwieback, crisp toast, Graham bread or shredded wheat biscuits. Where sugar is prohibited, saccharine or sweetina may be used for sweetening. The latter can be secured either through grocers who handle special food products, or through druggists. Where the ordinary bread is forbidden, the use of gum gluten or gluten flour—a wheaten flour from which the starch has been wholly or partially washed—may be necessary. Many gross adulterations of gluten products are on the market and care should be exercised to see that the product furnished is up to a certain standard and certified. The State Board of Health of New Hampshire has announced that “standard gluten flour must contain at least 30 per cent of proteid and not over 48 per cent of starch.” Recipes for using the gluten flour are easily obtained and a variety of biscuits, wafers and bread may be secured.
Breakfast.—Omelette, crisp buttered toast, coffee, cream.
Dinner.—Strained vegetable soup, gluten wafers, lamb chop, lettuce salad, snow pudding with soft egg custard, tea.