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.
Milk and barley water Arrowroot milk gruel Farina milk gruel
German flour gruel
Meiggs' food
Barley and rice gruel
Hard-boiled yolk of egg over milk toast Milk soups Nut soups Fruit juices
Carefully-cooked cereals Boiled rice Rice pudding Puree of lentil meal Carefully-cooked spinach Cooked cress Tender cauliflower
Cooked celery
Tender lettuce, with French dressing
Apples, raw and baked
Sour milk foods, as zoolak, mat-zoon and buttermilk
Very ripe small fruits
Stale bread
Whole wheat bread
Nut bread
Baked potato, occasionally
Meats' and meat soups
Sea food
White of egg
Fried foods
All sour foods, as pickles
Sweet dishes, as pastry, cakes, preserves and candies
Old peas, beans and lentils, except puree of lentil meal
Adults who have this disease may add to the preceding list a little chopped white meat of chicken, a bit of broiled white-fleshed fish, and occasionally hard-boiled yolks of eggs grated over milk toast.
 
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