First Day

Breakfast

A boiled egg and dry toast.

Cocoa from nibs with added milk and sweetened with saccharin. (1)

Lunch

Baked apples and custard pudding. Lime-juice lemonade. (2)

Dinner

Tomato soup. Roast chicken and asparagus.

(1) The discovery of saccharin has been as valuable to the gouty as to the diabetic. It should be used in the place of sugar.

(2) This is an excellent drink. It is made with Apollinaris or soda water, to which is added one teaspoonful of lime juice and a tabloid of saccharin to the pint.

Second Day

Breakfast

Grilled sole with lemon juice and butter. Tea and toast.

Lunch

Stewed cabbage. (3) Stilton cheese and rusks.

Dinner

Bisque soup.

Mutton cutlets and French beans.

Junket.

(3) Take a good-sized savoy, or spring cabbage; cut, wash, and use only the heart; boil it for a quarter of an hour. Meanwhile take two ounces of fat bacon chopped fine, a little onion and parsley, and a few herbs. Brown together in a stewpan. Put into the mixture the boiled cabbage and stew all together for about three-quarters of an hour.

Third Day

Breakfast

Eggs with black butter.

Fresh fruit.

Coffee and toast.

Lunch

Artichoke soup. (4) Sardines on toast.

Dinner

Oysters.

Fillet of beef au printaniere and potatoes.

Stewed rhubarb and cream.

(4) The various soups made of vegetable purees, are excellent for gouty patients. They are sufficiently sustaining to prevent a feeling of hunger, and if well digested give a fair amount of nourishment.

Fourth Day

Breakfast

Fried cutlets of cod. Milk and soda water (5), toast.

Lunch

Banana fritters. "Cart-wheel" (6) and pulled bread and butter.

Dinner

Spinach soup.

Roast pheasant and broccoli.

Almond pudding. (7)

(5) Milk is often found to be more digestible if diluted with an alkaline effervescing water. So treated, it makes also a more agreeable drink than when taken pure. Should the physician proscribe milk, cream and aerated water will be found to make a most nutritious and agreeable drink, particularly for breakfast, if tea and coffee cannot be taken.

(6) This is a cheese which owes its name to its immense circular size. It is made of skim milk, and is thus free from fat. In cases when the richer cheeses cannot be well digested, "cart-wheel" may form a useful food for the gouty.

(7) The recipe for this has already been given.

Fifth Day

Breakfast

Poached eggs on toast. Tea.

Lunch

Boiled sole. Tomato salad.

Dinner

Victoria soup.

Roast grouse.

Asparagus.

Sixth Day

Breakfast

Cold ham. Melon.

Lunch

Stewed plums and rice.

Dinner

Boiled chicken with potatoes saute. Cauliflower au gratin.

Seventh Day

Breakfast

Finnan haddock. Nib cocoa and milk, toast.

Lunch

Cock-a-leekie soup. Cheddar cheese and Callard's biscuits. (8)

Dinner

Cutlets of salmon.

Roast mutton with potatoes and cauliflower.

Gooseberry fool.

(8) Callard's biscuits and cakes are as useful to the gouty as to the diabetic. They are carefully and intelligently made, are free from starch and sugar, but yet very pleasant to eat.