Health & diet learning journey
Follow the Learning Journey Steps and sample the food at Lancashire's Cottonopolis Restaurant. Choose from our extensive range of original menus!
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Health & Diet Learning Journey Step 6: Food is Medicine!
Feeling under the weather and can't afford the doctor? Try nutritious and easy to digest food and drinks from an original Victorian selection for invalids.Beverages Barley Water - 2 oz pearl barley, 2-3 lumps of sugar, rind of ½ a small lemon soaked in 1 pint boiling water and strained - a nutritious and agreeable drink! Blackcurrant Tea - 1 dessertspoon blackcurrant jam, 1 dessertspoon of lemon juice and 1 teaspoon castor sugar dissolved in ½ pint boiling water, left to stand for 15 - 20 minutes by the fire then strained ready to drink - good for colds, thirst or hoarseness. Egg Nog - 1 tablespoon sherry or brandy, 1 tablespoon of cream, 1 tablespoon hot or cold water mixed well in a tumbler stirred with a whisked white of egg - will do everyone good to try one of these! Liquid Foods Beef Tea - 1lb of gravy beef , 1 pint of water and ½ teaspoon salt cooked in an earthenware jar in a slow oven for 3 hours then strained - a nourishing pick me up! Meat Dishes Calf's foot gently stewed with onion, parsley, cloves and mace then stirred into a cream sauce with parsley garnish. Pobs Bread and Milk Any of the above should help you to make you Get Well Soon!! Click on the Living link at the top of the left-hand navigation bar to find out more about cotton workers health and diet. Type Mrs Beeton into the Search Box and you will find more illustrations, recipes and advertisements from Mrs Beeton's Family Cookery (1909) BB |
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