This section is from the book "Mrs. Rorer's Diet For The Sick", by Sarah Tyson Rorer. Also available from Amazon: Mrs. Rorer's Diet For The Sick.
Glass of milk, one-third barley water, sipped slowly
Two ounces of blocks of stale bread, with four ounces of milk
Four ounces of any of the milk gruels
Two ounces of fruit juice over a small saucer of dextrinized cereals, flakes of some sort
The top of a shredded wheat biscuit, toasted, with milk
The top of a shredded wheat biscuit, toasted, with two ounces of grape juice
The beaten white of egg on orange juice, and a wafer
The yolk of an egg, beaten with four ounces of milk
The white of an egg, thoroughly shaken with six ounces of milk
Two ounces of scraped meat, broiled Two ounces of zwieback, pulled bread or stale bread Two chops (a quarter of a pound), with stale bread Two ounces of mutton cake, with stale bread or cracker
Three ounces of chicken timbale, with stale bread or cracker
Four ounces of broiled sweetbread, with stale bread or pulled bread
Four ounces of puree of lentils, or beans, or peas, with one ounce of toast
Three slices of milk toast (two ounces of bread and six ounces of milk)
Six ounces of gelose milk
Two ounces of toast, four ounces of hot milk poured over, covered with grated hard-boiled yolk of egg
Six ounces of beef meal gruel, with two ounces of toast
 
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