What must I do to get well? : and how can I keep so? : an exposition of the Salisbury treatment / by one who has done it.

  • Stuart, Elma (Elma Fraser)
Date:
1889
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    So much for my satisfactory patient. When others write to me I cannot take to the mince, I hate it, or I am unable to digest the - mince, I know that the lion in the path is simply that the mince is too quickly or over cooked, and I tell them so. In a short while, when all direc- tions have been followed, I am told that it is eaten heartily, is very nice, and that it gives no trouble either in eating or digesting. Once more please then, I repeat—the mince must be evenly mixed with cold water or stock, put in a saucepan, if over a hottish fire from ten to twelve minutes is sufficient to cook it, stirring briskly all the while—if over a colder fire it takes longer— but it is always done, and must come off the fire the moment that it is thoroughly hot through, and the red color has changed to gray. Its consistency before going on—and after coming off the fire, should be of a soft puree, more or less substan- tial or liquid, according as desired. Any devia- tion from this, renders the mince as insipid, indigestible, unassimilable and unpleasant, as good advice from a true friend! April 9, 1889. E. Stuart.