OUR INVALID RECIPES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 6 (Supplement)

OUR INVALID RECIPES.

Before a meal is brought in, it is a good plan to sponge the. patient's face and hands and make the bed and pillows comfortable. A very important point to remember is punctuality in serving the meals.

Tript> in Custard, —|lb. cooked (ripe, 1 egg, 3 teaenpful milk, seasoning. The tripe must be tender, Cut it into small pieces

011(1 lay it in a greased piedish. Beat tip the egg • with the milk and seasoning and strain it over. Stand the dish in a tin with a little water, and bake in a gentle oven until the custard is set and lightly browned. Serve with bread and butter. Stewed Potatoes.—Cut one or two potatoes into small dico and let them soak in cold water for a-quarter of an hour, then drain them. Cook in boiling salted water for 10 minutes and drain them again. Now return the potatoes to saucepan, with a small piece of butter. Sprinkle them with flour and pour in milk to barely cover them. Simmer slowly from 10 to 15 minutes. Season and serve. French Fritter. —A roll. A little milk or cream, sugar, butter, flavouring. Cut a slice of bread about an inch thick. Trim it and make a nice shape. Soak it in a little milk or thin cream, adding flavouring to taste. Then melt some butter in a pan, lift the bread carefully into it., and fry it a light brown on both sides Sprinkle with sugar and servo with jam or fruit sauce.

Plain Souffles. butter. Aoz. flour, £ gill of milk, 2 eggs, 1 teaspoonful sugar, little grated lemon rind, a squeeze of lemon juice. Take a, small, lined saucepan and melt it in the butter. Add the flour and mix smoothly together with a wooden spoon, then pour on the milk and stir over fire until the mixture boils and thickens.

Egg Soother. —1 yolk egg, 2 tablespoonsfill brown sugar, ] tablespoonful lemon juice. Beat yolk of egg and sugar together until of a creamy consistency. Then strain in the-lemon juice. Taken in teaspoonfuls, this is good for sore throat or hoarseness.