- Ingredients—1 pint of beef tea.
- 1 oz. of crushed tapioca, semolina, or sago.
- The yolks of 2 eggs.
Method.—Put the beef-tea into a saucepan on the fire.
When it boils, sprinkle in the tapioca; stir, and boil for about fifteen minutes.
Then add the yolks of the eggs; stir until they thicken, but do not let the soup boil after the yolks of the eggs are in it, as that would curdle them.
Gruel.
- Ingredients—1 pint of water.
- 2 dessertspoonfuls of fine oatmeal.
Method.—Put the water on the fire to boil.
Mix the oatmeal smoothly with cold water.
When the water in the saucepan boils, pour in the oatmeal, and stir well until it thickens.
Then put it by the side of the fire, and stir occasionally, cooking it for quite half an hour.