The following is an excellent Soup for the weakly.
Put two cowheels and a breast of mutton into a large pan, with four ounces of rice, one onion, twenty Jamaica peppers, and twenty black, a turnip, a carrot, and four gallons of water. Cover with brown paper, and bake.
Sago.
Put a teacupful of sago into a quart of water, and a bit of lemonpeel; when thickened, grate some ginger, and add half a pint of raisinwine, brown sugar, and two spoonfuls of Geneva. Boil all up together.
It is a most supporting thing for those whom disease has left very feeble.
Caudle for the Sick and Lying in.
Set three quarts of water on the fire, mix smooth as much oatmeal as will thicken the whole with a pint of cold water; when boiling, pour the latter in, and twenty Jamaica peppers in fine powder; boil to a good middling thickness, then add sugar, half a pint of well fermented table beer, and a glass of gin. Boil all.
This mess twice, and once or twice of broth, will be of incalculable service.
There is not a better occasion for charitable commiseration than when a person is sick. A bit of meat or pudding sent unexpectedly has often been the means of recalling long lost appetite.
Nor are the indigent alone the grateful receivers; for in the highest houses a real good sick-cook is rarely met with; and many who possess all the goods of fortune, have attributed the first return of health to some kitchen physic.