Mrs. Beeton's "sick nursing" recipes are always good for a quick dry-heave.
[quote]TOAST WATER. Ingredients.—1 crust of bread, 1 pint of cold water. Method.—Toast the bread very brown and hard, but do not burn it, or it will impart a disagreeable flavour to the water. Put it into a jug, pour over it the cold water, let it soak for 1 hour, then strain and use.
[quote]BEEF TEA AND EGG. Ingredients.—¼ of a pint of beef tea, 1 yolk of egg, salt, toasted bread. Method.—Beef tea, veal tea, mutton tea, or diluted beef essence may be employed in this preparation. Beat the yolk of egg in a teacup, season lightly with salt, and if allowed, add a little pepper. Heat the beef tea, but do not allow it to boil, and pour it over the yolk of egg, stirring briskly meanwhile. Serve with thin strips of toast.
[quote]MUTTON, ESSENCE OF. Ingredients.—1 lb. of lean mutton, 1 gill of water, salt and pepper. Method.—Cut away every particle of fat, shred the meat finely, and place it in a jar with the cold water. Cover closely, place the jar in a saucepan of boiling water or in a cool oven, and cook gently for at least 2 hours. Strain and press all the liquid from the meat, and add salt and pepper to taste. This preparation being highly concentrated, should be administered in small quantities.
[quote]RAW BEEF SANDWICHES. Ingredients.—2 or 3 ozs. of raw juicy steak, thin slices of bread and butter, salt and pepper. Method.—Scrape the meat finely, rub it through a wire sieve, and season lightly with salt and pepper. Spread it on thin bread and butter, and place another piece on the top. Cut into dainty squares and serve. If preferred, the pepper and salt may be omitted, and the preparation, when spread on the bread, plentifully dredged with castor sugar. This entirely masks the flavour of the meat.
