Food for Weak Stomachs.
--In the "Memoirs of
Count Segur," vol. 1, page 168, there is the following anecdote: "My mother (the
Countess de Segur) being asked by Voitaire respecting her health, told him that the most painful feeling she had arose from the decay of her stomach, and the difficulty of finding any kind of aliment that it could bear.
Voltaire, by way of consolation, assured her that he was once for nearly a year in the same state, and believed to be incurable; but that, nevertheless, a very simple remedy had restored him. It consisted in taking no other nourishment than yolks of eggs beaten up with the flour of potatoes and water. "--Though this circumstance took place as far back as fifty years ago, and respected so extraordinary a personage as
Voltaire, it is astonishing how little it is known, and how rarely the remedy has been practised.
Its efficacy, however, in cases of debility, cannot be questioned, and the following is the mode of preparing this valuable article of food, as recommended by
Sir John Sinclair: Receipt — Beat up an egg in a bowl and then add six tablespoonfuls of cold water, mixing the whole well together; then add two tablespoonfuls of the farina of potatoes, to be mixed thoroughly with the liquor in the bowl.--Then pour in as much boiling water as will convert the whole into jelly, and mix it well.
It may be taken either alone or with the addition of a little milk, and moist or best sugar, not only for breakfast, but in cases of great stomachic debility, or in consumptive disorders, at the other meals.
The dish is light, easily digestive, extremely wholesome and nourishing.
Bread or biscuit may be taken with it as the stomach gets stronger.
