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Arrowroot Milk

From Mrs. Rorer's diet for the sick (1914).

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A historical recipe

Mrs. Rorer's diet for the sick, by Sarah Tyson Heston Rorer (1914).

United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a half pint of milk
  2. One teaspoonful of sugar

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Put a half pint of milk in a double boiler, add one level teaspoonful of arrowroot moistened in a little cold water, stir until the mixture thickens, cover the vessel and cook ten minutes.
  2. One teaspoonful of sugar and two tablespoonfuls of sherry may be added if admissible.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From Mrs. Rorer's diet for the sick (1914), printed page 249, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/mrsrorersdietfor00roreiala

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.