Dried Flour for Teething Children.
- 1 cup of flour, tied in a stout muslin bag and dropped into cold water, then set over the fire.
Boil three hours steadily. Turn out the flour ball and dry in the hot sun all day; or, if you need it at once, dry in a moderate oven without shutting the door.
To use it—
Grate a tablespoonful for a cupful of boiling milk and water (half and half). Wet up the flour with a very little cold water, stir in and boil five minutes. Put in a little salt.
Tapioca Jelly. ✠ (Very good.)
- 1 cup of tapioca.
- 3 cups of cold water.
- Juice of a lemon, and a pinch of the grated peel.
- Sweeten to taste.
Soak the tapioca in the water four hours. Set within a saucepan of boiling water; pour more lukewarm water over the tapioca if it has absorbed too much of the liquid, and heat, stirring frequently. If too thick after it begins to clear, put in a very little boiling water. When quite clear, put in the sugar and lemon. Pour into moulds. Eat cold, with cream flavored with rose-water and sweetened.
Tapioca Blanc-mange. ✠
- 1 cup of tapioca soaked in two cups cold water.
- 3 cups boiling milk.
- 3 tablespoonfuls white sugar.
- Rose-water or vanilla.