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It should form the whole of the patient's drink and the food should be biscuits
and rusks, in every way and sort; ripe and dried fruits of various kinds, when a
decline is apprehended.
Baked and dried fruits, raisins in particular, make excellent suppers for
invalids with biscuits, or common cake.
Orgeat.
Beat two ounces of almonds with a tea-spoonful of orange-flower water, and a
bitter almond or two; then pour a quart of milk and water to the paste. Sweeten
with sugar, or capillaire. This is a fine drink for those who have a tender
chest; and in the gout it is highly useful, and, with the addition of half an
ounce of gum arabic, has been found to allay the painfulness of the attendant
heat. Half a glass of brandy may be added if thought too cooling in the latter
complaints, and the glass of orgeat may be put into a basin of warm water.
Another orgeat, for company, is in page 229.
Orangeade, or Lemonade.
Squeeze the juice; pour boiling water on a little of the peel, and cover close.
Boil water and sugar to a thin syrup, and skim it. When all are cold, mix the
juice, the infusion, and the syrup, with as much more water as will make a rich
sherbet; strain through a jelly-bag. Or squeeze the juice, and strain it, and
add water and capillaire.
Egg Wine.
Beat an egg, mix with it a spoonful of cold water; set on the fire a glass of
white wine, half a glass of water, sugar, and nutmeg. When it boils, pour a
little of it to the egg by degrees, till the whole be in, stirring it well; then
return the whole into the sauce-pan, put it on a gentle fire, stir it one way
for not more than a minute; for if it boil, or the egg be stale, it will curdle.
Serve with toast.
Egg wine may be made as above, without warming the egg, and it is then lighter
on the stomach, though not so pleasant to the taste.
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