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I was just looking through my grandmother’s cookbook. It called Rumford Complete Cook Book it was printed in 1934. There is a section on Recipes for the Sick. Here are a few of the odd sounding ones.

Acid Phosphate Whey

1 cup hot milk
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon Horsford’s Acid Phosphate

Heat the milk in a small saucepan over hot water or in a double boiler; add the Acid Phosphate and cook, without stirring, until the whey separates. Strain through cheese cloth and add the sugar. If more acid is desired, add two or three drops of Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. Serve hot or cold.

Toast Water

2 slices of stale bread toasted
1 cup boiling water
1/6 level teaspoon salt

Toast the bread till golden brown and dry all through, or dry it in a moderately hot oven till golden brown and crisp. Pour the boiling water over it and add the salt; cover and set aside till cool. Strain, and serve hot or cold. Some add milk, cream and sugar and serve hot in place of tea or coffee.

Charlotte’s comment: This just sounds gross lol

Beef Cakes

1/4 pound very lean round steak
salt and pepper
Toast

Cut the meat into strips, remove every particle of fat, and scrape the pulp from the fiber of the meat. Season lightly, remembering that the palate is more sensitive to seasonings in sickness than in health. Form into very small balls or cakes, and broil about two minutes. Serve on round of buttered or dry toast.

Since always travel guides have always been in favor of timely hotel reservations. Even if you are going to stay at cheap hotels, book well before hand.

Have you ever looked in your pantry, refrigerator or freezer and wondered how long the stuff stored there was good for? Well I found a list!

Canned and jarred foods: Unopened canned foods keep for two years. Jarred foods often have “best by” dates. Once opened, both products can be refrigerated for three to four days. Products containing meat should be consumed within two days.

Never use a product from a can that is leaking, rusted, badly dented or bulging. Never store food in an opened can.

Chocolate: Chocolate will keep for many months at room temperature. But white chocolate, which doesn’t have the antioxidants contained in cocoa solids, has a room-temperature shelf life of only a few weeks.

Coffee: Roasted beans can be stored at room temperature for several weeks or frozen for several months. Once ground, coffee will keep at room temperature for only a few days.

Frozen foods: For best storage, freezers should be set at 0 F. Beef steaks and roasts, chicken, fruit juice concentrates, lamb roasts and shrimp will keep for a year. Most vegetables, unbaked fruit pies and veal and pork roasts can keep for eight months. Consume breads, cooked meats and ground beef within three months. Ice cream and bacon are best within a month.

Herbs and spices: Seasonings generally don’t go bad, but they can lose potency. Most experts advise buying herbs and spices in amounts small enough to be used within six months to a year. Cooks may need to adjust seasoning quantities when using older ones.

Maple syrup and honey: Because of its high moisture content, maple syrup must be refrigerated once opened. Unopened, it will keep in a cool, dark place for several years. Once opened, it will keep up to a year in the refrigerator.

Honey’s low moisture content prevents bacterial growth. It can be stored at room temperature for several years.

Olive oil: As a general rule, olive oil should be consumed within about year from its purchase date. Always store olive oil in a cool, dark place.

Most vegetable oils will keep for six months to a year. Seed and nuts oils are best within six months.

Pasta: Dry pasta can be stored for up to a year. Once cooked, it can be refrigerated for three to five days. Fresh pasta should be used or frozen by the “best by” date marked on the package.

Sauces and salad dressings: Most of these products — including ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard — have some sort of date coding. They are generally good for a year or more unopened. Once opened, they should be consumed within about 6 months, after which flavor and color can fade.

Hot sauces, such as Tabasco, usually last up to five years at room temperature after being opened. Soy sauce in unopened glass bottles will keep for two years. Once opened, it should be refrigerated and consumed within several months.

Sugar: Sugar, brown or white, can be stored indefinitely in a cool, dry place. Brown sugar that hardens can be revived by letting it stand overnight in a sealed jar with a damp paper towel or apple slice.

Vinegar: Most vinegars can be stored at room temperature and used indefinitely. For vinegar with additives, such as fruit pulp, check the label for a date code.

This is one of my grandmother’s recipes. It uses Rice Krispies as the coating on the chicken. It’s good.

1 - 2 1/2 to 3 lb. frying chicken, cut up
3 - 4 cups Rice Krispies
1/2 -2/3 cup butter or margarine melted
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper

Wash chicken pieces and dry thouroughly.
Crush Rice Krispies into medium fine crumbs.
Combine melted butter with salt and pepper.
Dip chicken pieces in seasoned butter, then roll in Rice Krispies crumbs until well coated.
Place skin side up in shallow baking pan lined with aluminum foil; do not crowd pieces.
Bake in moderate oven (350 degrees F) about 1 hour or until tender. Do not cover pan or turn chicken while cooking.

Makes 4-5 servings.

These yummy banana cupcakes are filled with cream cheese filling. The recipe for the filling is right below the recipe for the cupcakes.

Cream Cheese Filling *recipe follows*
1 package (18.5 oz) banana cake mix (with pudding in the mix)
3/4 cup finely chopped nuts
2 tbsp sugar

Prepare Cream Cheese Filling: set aside. Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Prepare cake batter according to package direction. Fill paper-lined muffin cups (2 1/2 inches in diameter) 1/2 full with batter. Spoon about 1 teaspoonful filling into center of each cupcake. Combine nuts and sugar; sprinkle about 1 teaspoonful over top of each cupcake. Bake 20 minutes or until wooden toothpick inserted in cake portion comes out clean. Cool on wire racks.

Makes about 3 dozen cupcakes.

Cream Cheese Filling

1 package (8 oz) cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup Hershey’s Mini Chocolate Chips

In small bowl combine cream cheese, sugar and egg; beat until smooth. Stir in mini chocolate chips.

Is you hair dull, fine, flyaway, etc? Do you want it to look better? Try some of the tips below.

Fine Hair : for fine hair get a shampoo with wheat proteins and polymers. These ingredients will coat the hair making it look thicker. Use spray volumizers. These are light enough and will deposit a light mist of shine in the form of droplets without wilting your hair.
Normal Hair : for normal hair use a shampoo that has silk amino acids, this will soften and repair your hair structure. Lecithin restores hair texture. To add shine you can use gels and creams. Apply the product on your palm, rub your hands together and pat gently on to your hair.
Thick and Coarse Hair: Use pomades. They will make your hair shiny and will moisturize your hair too.

Tips For Shiny Hair

1. Use heat-activated shampoo
2. Deep condition at least weekly
3. Don’t use a lot of styling products as they can dull the hair by coating it.
4. Use Strawberry hair mask: Mash eight strawberries with one-tablespoon mayonnaise. Massage this into washed but damp hair. Cover it with a shower cap and then a warm towel. Wash out with a shampoo and then condition. This mask will give your hair a rich gloss.
5. Increase the shine in your hair by giving your hair a cool blast of air to seal the cuticle after it is completely dry. If the cuticles are ragged then your hair will not shine.
6. For blonde hair use a few tablespoons of lemon juice to your rinse water. This will make your hair shiny.
7. For brown and red hair add a few tablespoons of apple cider vinegar to your rinse water
8. For shiny hair you can also mix one teaspoon of honey into 4 cups of warm water. After shampooing, pour the mixture through your hair, but do not rinse. Dry as normal.

I love coconut cream pie. I came across this recipe and just drooled! I love Amaretto too.

1/4 cup flaked coconut
1 container (8 oz) thawed non-dairy whipped topping, divided
1 container (8 oz) coconut cream-flavored or vanilla flavored yogurt
1/4 cup amaretto liqueur
1 package (4 serving size) instant coconut pudding and pie filling mix
1 (9 inch) prepared graham cracker pie crust
Fresh strawberries (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. To toast coconut, place coconut on baking sheet. Bake 4 to 5 minutes or until golden brown, stirring frequently. Cool completely.

Place 2 cups whipped topping, yogurt and amaretto in large bowl. Add pudding mix. Beat with wire whisk or electric mixer on low speed 1 to 2 minutes or until thickened.

Pour pudding mixture into crust; spread remaining whipped topping over filling. Sprinkle with toasted coconut. Garnish with fresh strawberries, if desired. Refrigerate.

Makes 8 servings.

When you leave a comment on a WordPress blog, a no follow tag is automatically inserted into the comment. The no follow tag tells search engines not to ignore the link. If you use WordPress should get the Do Follow Plugin so when someone leaves you a comment they are getting link back from you. I use this one.

To make it easier to know which blogs have already added the Do Follow plugin, Colleen at GeekySpeaky created the list. Thank you Elizabeth at Table for Five for adding me to the list! It is open to anyone using the Do Follow, so if you want to participate, follow these instructions:

HOW TO JOIN THE LIST:

1. Write a short paragraph at the beginning of your post and link back to the blog that put you on the list in the paragraph. This isn’t a suggestion. You need to break up the duplicate content. Someone took the time to add you so the least you can do is give them an extra link back.

2. Copy the list of originals below COMPLETELY and add it to your blog. If you would like a different keyword for your blog then change it when you do your post and it should pass to most blogs with that keyword.

3. Take the adds from the blog that added you and place them in the Original list.

4. Add at least 1 new blog that you KNOW us using the DO FOLLOW plugin to the list in the My Adds section. (Add no more than 5!) Let the people you’ve added know, so that they can keep the list going!

5. Leave relevant comments on the blogs listed and get a link back to your site thanks to Do Follow!

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