For the Convalescent

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19337, 29 May 1937, Page 10

For the Convalescent

TO vary the dishes for the eonvnlescent in a small household and to make them less insipid is not always easy. Wafer-thin water biscuits are a change from toast. Soup may be nerved as a jelly in a deep cup. Fish may not, as a rule, be offered fried, but grilled lightly it is often permitted. Poaehed_fish is tasty. The fillet is put in 'a little stock and cooked in the oven under waxed paper. When cooked it is drained and placed on a moist omelet, which is folded over. Instead of sauce made with fat, one may be made of hot milk poured over yolks of eggs, stirred in a double saucepan till as thick as cream and seasoned with horbs. This may be added to fish or cauliflower, but sauce should not be poured ovei invalids' food, for it makes it sodden. It should be served separately in a little lipped jug. A baby's plate whose edges curve inwards is always useful for bed meals which must be liquid, and the housewife will find that the inconsiderable expense of a bed tray is well worth while.

Another change is provided by delicate sandwiches. Beef is sustaining, and is very digcstiblo if, for instance, round steak is stewed in stock till tender, pounded and passed twice through the mincer, flavoured with a little sauce, and then used in thin white bread and butter. It may be stored in a jar under melted butter.