54. Meat for Invalids

The Modern Housewife · Soyer, Alexis · 1849

Source: The Modern Housewife
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Ingredients (8)

Meat options for invalids

mutton ↝ Mutton, cooked, roasted (Navajo) [American Indian/Alaska Native Foods]
beef ↝ Beef, ground, raw [Ground beef]
lamb, if not too young ↝ Lamb, ground, raw [Lamb, Veal, and Game Products]
sweetbreads ↝ Sweetbreads [Liver and organ meats]
calves’ feet or head, scalded and boiled until tender ↝ Pork, pig's feet [Pork]
chickens ↝ Chicken, ground, raw [Poultry Products]
pigeons ↝ Squab, (pigeon), meat only, raw [Poultry Products]
partridges ↝ Pheasant, raw, meat and skin [Poultry Products]

Instructions (3)

For invalids, the best meats are mutton, beef, lamb (if not too young), sweetbreads, calves' feet or head (scalded and boiled until tender).
Chickens, pigeons, and partridges are also suitable and inviting options.
All the mentioned meats are easy to digest, with the exception of beef, which may need to be gently stewed until tender, especially for delicate stomachs recovering from illness.

Original Text

54. Meat for Invalids.—The best meat as food for invalids is, in fact, that which is principally used, mutton and beef, lamb, if not too young (sweetbreads, I consider, ought oftener to be introduced), and calves’ feet or head, scalded and boiled until tender, are very nutritious; chickens, pigeons, partridges, are also very inviting. All the above-mentioned articles are easy of digestion, excepting perhaps the beef, which may require to be gently stewed until tender, if for a delicate stomach just ordered to take meat after a serious fit of illness.

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