Light Nutritive Lemonade. 1

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4. Put the juice of a lemon to a pint of water, in which an ounce of sugar has been dissolved, then add the white of an egg and froth it up. It may be iced.

Effervescing Lemonade

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5. Squeeze two large lemons, and add a pint of spring water to the juice, and three or four lumps of white sugar. When required for use pour half of it into a tumbler and add half a small teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, stir, and drink whilst effervescing.

Lemonade Jelly

10,148. Slice very thinly three fresh lemons and two Seville oranges, pour over them a pint of boiling water, cover closely for half an hour, while the orange and lemon are steeping have one and a half ounces of isinglass soaking in half a cup of cold water; when quite soft put it in a pcrce lain lined sauce-pan, and pour over it the lemon and water; let it simmer for fifteen minutes, stir in two tablespoonfuls of white sugar and half a pint of good wine, let it simmer two minutes and strain through jelly-strainer or bag.

Lemon-Peel Water

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Pare the rind from a lemon and put it in a jug, and pour over it a pint of boiling water; cover closely and when quite cold pour off the liquid and add a tablespoonful of white sugar. A tablespoonful of good brandy or sherry may be added.

A cooling astringent drink, given indiarrhoea, etc.

Lime Juice Cordial

10,150. Take glucose, four ounces; syrup, 16 ounces; lime juice, sixteen ounces; water, twenty-eight ounces; tincture of lemon peel, orange flower water (triple) of each sufficient to flavor.

- New Remedies.

Lime Water And Milk

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One wine glass lime water, mixed with one goblet of milk. Can be retained in the stomach when it rejects everything else. It may be taken as often as desired.

Liebig's Food For Infants. 1

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Take half an ounce of wheaten flour, an equal quantity of malt flour, 7 1/4 grains of bicarbonate of potassium, and an ounce of water, well mixed; to which is added five ounces of fresh milk*. The whole is put on a gentle fire until it begins to thicken, when it must be removed, stirred for several minutes, again heated and stirred till fluid, and then boiled, and passed through a sieve. It is slightly aperient, and in cases of diarrhoea, prepared chalk, gr. xx, may be substituted for the bicarbonate of potassium.

One teaspoonful of Liebig's food for infants dissolved in a teacupful of new milk and water, equal parts, with the addition of a tablespoonful of cinnamon water.

Lobster

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Take a small claw of lobster, or crab, and put on it a little salt, a quarter of a teaspoonful of salad oil, and a drop or two of vinegar.

This is digestible even for a delicate stomach.

Macaroni Soup

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Boil a quart of beef tea until reduced to twothirds, add two ounces of well cooked macaroni, and boil down to a pint. Season to the taste.

A pleasant soup for convalescents.

Marshmallow Tea 10.155

Add two ounces of dried marshmallow root, and one ounce of Sultana raisins, to two and a half pints of boiling water, boil slowly until reduced one half. Strain without pressure.

An excellent demulcent drink in renal disease with a tendency to gravel.