XXII.--Whey Gruel for Two Persons--503 Calories
A historical recipe from Scientific feeding, by Roper, Dora C. C. L. (Dora Cathrine Cristine Liebel) (1914).
A historical recipe
Scientific feeding, by Roper, Dora C. C. L. (Dora Cathrine Cristine Liebel) (1914). Project Gutenberg eBook #75850.
From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.
Source and licence
From Scientific feeding, by Roper, Dora C. C. L. (Dora Cathrine Cristine Liebel) (1914). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #75850 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75850). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.
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Ingredients
- one-half cup of cold
- two cups of whey
- a teaspoonful of butter
- a tablespoonful of cold water
- three ounces of hot cream
Method
- Wash one-fourth of a cupful or four tablespoonsful of sago several times with cold and warm water until the water becomes clear, then soak in one-half cup of cold or warm water for several hours over night.
- Bring two cups of whey to a boil with the peeling of one-half a lemon or a piece of cinnamon bark.
- Stir in the sago, let boil 20 minutes, and add one-fourth teaspoonful of salt.
- Remove from the fire and add a teaspoonful of butter, the yolk of an egg diluted with a tablespoonful of cold water, and a few drops of lemon, or leave out the egg, butter and lemon, and add three ounces of hot cream.
- Mix well, pour on soup plates and serve with soda crackers or zwieback, or one-half of a raw red Oregon apple.
- One tablespoonful of sugar may be added if allowed.
- Sour whey may be used instead of sweet whey.