Harmless P.uddings
From Dyspepsy forestalled and resisted, or, Lectures on diet, regimen, and employment (1831).
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From Dyspepsy forestalled and resisted, or, Lectures on diet, regimen, and employment (1831), printed page 442, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/61420510R.nlm.nih.gov
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Ingredients
- Three pints of skimmed milk
- one pound of the best sea biscuit
- one pound of the flour
- two eggs
Method
- Ono of the best of this kind for most stomachs, and particularly for the cure of habitual costivencss, is what is sometimes called mush ;
- or a pudding made by adding rye flour, (if unbolted the better,) to boiling water.
- A person of feeble health may eat this for months, once or twice a day, and find it always to relish.
- It may be eaten with molasses, sugar, or milk.
- Butter should not be added.
- Thomas Wood, whose ease was mentioned in Note E, lived for many years entirely on puddings made according to the following receipts.
- " Three pints of skimmed milk, boiling, were poured on one pound of the best sea biscuit, broken into pieces : this was done over night and the ingredients were left to stand together until the following morning, when two eggs were added.
- This compound, being boiled in a cloth about the space of an hour, became a pudding of sufficient consistence to be cut with a knife." "The pudding which he afterwards used, was composed of one pound of the flour, of which the coarse or ordinary kind of the tea biscuit is made, boiled with a pint and a half of skimmed milk, without any other addition." NOTE B.
- B.
- PAGE 191.
- Mistake as to the use of fruit to prevent costiveness.
- " While on the subject of diet, I will mention an error, into which those who suffer from this species of dyspepsy very commonly full : it is, the eating freely of such fruits as apples, peaches, &c.
- which for a little lime seem to alleviate the uneasiness produced by acidity, and act as an aperient.
- — This deceives the invalid, and lie imagines they arc beneficial to him, when in reality if indulged in, they greatly weaken the stomach by their indigestible quality, and increase the tendency to acidity.
- NOTE C.
- C.
- PAGE 229.