Tokology : $b A book for every womanStockham, Alice B. (Alice Bunker)
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Tokology : $b A book for every woman
Stockham, Alice B. (Alice Bunker)
Women -- Health and hygiene
Nutrina contains the phosphates of the grain, hence it is a valuable
nerve nutritive. Is especially excellent for nursing mothers and
children when first weaned.
CEREALS.
Every table should be abundantly supplied with well-cooked cereals.
Cook in a farina or milk boiler. No housekeeper should be without this
important utensil. Do not soak cereals in cold water over night. All
of them, even rice, are far better to be put to cook in boiling water.
This bursts the starch cells at once, and prevents the raw taste and
stringy, dark look these preparations frequently have. Should not be
stirred while cooking, as it breaks the grains and makes them pasty.
CRACKED OR ROLLED WHEAT.
In two quarts boiling water stir one pint cracked wheat. Half
tea-spoon salt. Use a farina boiler or double kettle, and cook three
hours without stirring. When done, mould in dishes. Eat hot or cold
with fruit sauce or cream and sugar. Excellent in constipation or
biliousness. The rolled wheat is preferable. Not being able to procure
it ready prepared, one can crack wheat in an ordinary coffee mill.
OATMEAL MUSH.
Coarse oatmeal should be cooked like rolled wheat. If desired warm for
breakfast, can be left in a granite or porcelain farina boiler over
night, and heated in a few minutes. Do not soak oatmeal over night, nor
try to cook it sufficiently in the morning. It must never be stirred
while cooking. Fine oatmeal can be made in a mush, like Indian meal,
and be ready for the table in twenty minutes.
INDIAN MEAL MUSH.
Take fine meal of northern corn, a little salt; stir slowly in boiling
water until as thick as can be stirred easily. Stand it on back of the
stove and cook slowly one hour. Is better cooked in a milk boiler.
GRAHAM MUSH.
Stir graham flour in boiling water slowly, until it makes a thick
batter. Set on the back part of the stove ten minutes, then beat two
minutes and turn into the dish. To be eaten with fruit juice or cream
and sugar.
FARINA MUSH.
Stir a half cup of farina slowly into a quart of boiling water; cook
fifteen minutes in a milk boiler without stirring; add one-half cup of
cream just before removing from the fire. Served with stewed fruit or
fruit sauce.
HOMINY.
Mix one cup of hominy with three and a half cups boiling water, a
little salt. Cook in farina boiler four hours. Delicious eaten with
milk with or without sugar.--_Hygienic Cookery._
WHEATLET MUSH.
Use water, or equal parts of milk and water. Salt to taste. Have
_boiling_, _foaming_, _scalding_ hot, then sprinkle into it from the
hand sufficient wheatlet to make a thin pudding.
Keep it boiling hard for five minutes. Then set it back to cook slowly
ten minutes longer.
WHEATLET BLANC MANGE.
Pour wheatlet mush into forms and serve cold.
WHEATLET PUDDING.
Break up cooked wheatlet with a fork, add milk enough to make a thin
pudding; two eggs, currants and raisins to suit. Brown in a moderate
oven.
WHEATLET AND APPLE PUDDING.
Make as cracked wheat pudding, (page 311).
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