From:
The Thorough Good Cook
Soup: 7. Chicken Broth for the Consumptive
Put a
young fowl, cut up as usual, into a small, well-
tinned
stew-
pan, with two spoonfuls of
rice, and two quarts
of
water ; having skimmed it, add some
coriander seed and
two pinches of
poppy grains ;
boil it gently for two hours ;
add six or eight
crayfish, and give it twenty minutes' boiling ;
then throw in a handful of borage leaves ; cover it, and take
the pan from the fire to infuse for a
quarter of an hour.
In putting the fowl on, add two spoonfuls of
pearl barley,
and when passed through a
sieve, add two ounces of barley-
sugar (
sugar boiled with an infusion of marsh-mallows) ;
when this is dissolved, use it
lukewarm and perfectly
skimmed. Capons are prepared for broths and teas like
chickens, but they are much more
nutritious, and are more
suitable for
men than for
women and
children.
I may add that I have known wondrous
benefit to result
from the use of this
chicken broth.