This section is from the book "Cookery For Invalids", by Thomas J. Murrey. Also available from Amazon: Cookery for Invalids.
Dissolve a teaspoon-ful of currant-jelly in a goblet of cold water, and add one cake of cut sugar.
Simmer gently for ten minutes a pint of fresh-picked currants in a quart of water, add a heaping tablespoonful of powdered sugar, and, when cold, strain. There is a little economy in adding the sugar after the juice is strained.
" Out upon the nonsense of taking medicine and nostrums during the currant season ! Let it be taught at theological seminaries that the currant is a 1 means of grace.' It is a corrective, and that is what average humanity most needs."— E. P. Roe, in " The Home Acre."
Mash two baked apples with a fork, and pour over them a pint of boiling water; when cool strain and sweeten to taste.
A Glass of Cold Water in the morning before breakfast will, in many persons, produce the same effect as mineral waters.
 
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