Cookery for invalids and the convalescent.

Date:
1909
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Cookery for invalids and the convalescent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    best trained nurses in this country. Every nurse employed at this excellent institution is bound to pass an examination in the practice and theory of sick-room cookery. In this the London Hospital has set a splendid example, which has been followed by Guy’s, Charing Cross, Westminster and several other Hospitals in the metro- polis—this should be the case with every similar institution in the Kingdom. My connection with the London Hospital for over eleven years as examiner in sick-room cookery, and with Guy’s and Charing Cross Hospitals where I have acted in a similar capacity, has greatly extended my know- ledge. Being brought frequently in touch with doctors and patients, and face to face with the practical difficulties met with by nurses, has necessarily widened my expe- rience, and enabled me to attain a better grasp of the needs of both patients and sick-room cooks. The following rules, the result of these long years of study and observation, should be found useful:— In feeding a patient do it gently and neatly. See that every dish is daintily dressed and served in small quantities. Avoid having anything in the way of food kept within sight of the patient after he or she has been fed. Endeavour to have everything arranged to please the eye as well as the palate. Give as much variety as is possible; even if the same materials be used, a dish may be prepared in a different way. On giving hot liquids or solids see that they are hot when actually presented