This section is from the book "Practical Dietetics: With Reference To Diet In Disease", by Alida Frances Pattee. Also available from Amazon: Practical Dietetics: With Reference to Diet in Disease.
1½ cups wheat bran. 1½ cups sifted flour. 1 teaspoon cream of tartar. ½ teaspoon soda.
½ teaspoon salt. 4 tablespoons butter. Milk.
Blend all ingredients, using enough cold milk to make a stiff dough. Boll to one-eighth inch thickness and cut with a small biscuit cutter. Great care is needed in baking that they do not burn and at the same time that they are thoroughly cooked.
They keep well a long time if put in a tin box.
They should be eaten at each meal if needed as purgative medicine.
1 pound Gum Gluten Flour.
¼ pound butter.
Salt.
Sweetina. Cold water.
1 Without milk.
Mix thoroughly the Gum Gluten Flour with the butter, add salt and Sweetina to taste. Add cold water to make a soft dough. Toss on floured board, roll thin, cut into shape, bake.
1 biscuit crisp = 25 Calories. Gum Gluten Biscuit Crisps may be served plain, or buttered and heated slightly in oven.
 
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