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.
Well-cooked cereals
Fruits, fresh and stewed without sugar Cooked bananas, except fried and fritters Cream soups
Vegetable soups without meat Puree of beans, lentils, peas Carefully-cooked beef, mutton, chicken, white-fleshed fish Eggs
Fruit tapioca
Vegetable gelatin with fruits Whole wheat bread Corn bread
An occasional piece of white bread Occasionally rye bread Baked potatoes Boiled potatoes
Mashed and browned potatoes Potato timbale Potato souffle Potatoes a la creme Stuffed potatoes
Baked sweet potatoes occasionally Boiled rice
Stewed macaroni, not baked Hominy and hominy grits Mush bread String beans Stewed cucumbers Summer squash
Buttermilk
Zoolak
Matzoon
Cup custards
Soft custards
Spinach
Tender cauliflower
Very young carrots
Young turnips carefully stewed, with cream sauce
Young celery
Lettuce, imported endive, Romaine
Stewed okra
A little tender corn
Carefully-boiled onions once in awhile
Dandelions carefully cooked
Such nut foods as almond butter, a very little peanut butter, almond cakes, almond pudding, pinon nut butter, ground pihon nuts for sandwiches, ground Brazilian nuts
Cocoanut milk and cocoanut cream desserts
Strong meat soups
All clear soups made from meat
Sea foods, with the exception of white-fleshed fish Pork Veal
All fatty meats Sweetbreads, liver, tripe, brains and kidneys
Complicated made dishes
Rich sauces
Dense meat, as rabbit
All stimulating foods
Foods seasoned with wine or highly spiced Fried foods of every description Tea Coffee
Potatoes baked with meat
Macaroni baked with cheese
Cabbage
Old carrots, turnips, beets
Fried onions
Peppers, raw or cooked
Pies
Cakes
Cookies
Hot' breads
Preserves
Jellies, except occasionally
Raw bananas
Unripe fruits
Imperfect fruits
Unsterilized dry dates and figs
Cantaloupes
 
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