This section is from the book "Recipes Of Grandview Congregational Church", by The Ladies' Aid Society. Also available from Amazon: Recipes.
Fruits: Given one-half hour before or one-half hour after milk: Orange juice, 1 ounce; pineapple juice, 1 ounce; strained apple sauce; mashed pulp of prunes.
Broths: Mutton, chicken, veal or beef broth, with rice or stale bread crumbs, 5 ounces; beef juice, 3 ounces.
Cereals: Gruels or cereal jellies made of either oatmeal, farina, barley, hominy, rice or wheatena, 4 ounces.
Breads: Zwieback; dry toast; stale bread and butter; graham cracker.
Eggs: Coddled, soft boiled or soft poached.
Meats: Scraped rare beef, 1 tablespoonful.
Milks: One to one quart and one-half in 24 hours.
Feedings: Five in 24 hours.
Fruits: Given one-half hour before or one-half hour after milk: Orange juice, prune juice, pineapple juice, baked apple, apple sauce, scraped raw apple, stewed prunes.
Soups: Beef, mutton, veal or chicken broth, clear vegetable soup, beef juice.
Cereals: Oatmeal, cream of wheat, hominy, farina, cereal jellies.
Breads: Zwieback, dry toast, stale bread and butter, graham crackers.
Eggs: Coddled, soft boiled or soft poached.
Meats: Scraped rare beef, heart of a lamb chop, white meat of chicken, minced beef. (All meats should be cut up "fine or shredded.)
Vegetables (All vegetables mashed into a pulp, served warm, one at a time): Baked potato, spinach, asparagus tips, cauliflower, carrots.
Milk: One quart in 24 hours.
Desserts: Baked custard, plain puddings of rice, bread or tapioca, blanc-mange, junket corn starch.
Feedings: Five in 24 hours.
Meats and Broths Easy to Digest - Mutton, venison, hare, sweetbread, chicken, turkey, beef tea, mutton broth, beef.
Hard to Digest - Pork, veal, goose, liver, heart, brain, lamb, duck, salt meat, sausage.
Fish Easy to Digest - Turbot, haddock, flounder, sole, roasted oysters, trout, pike.
Fish Hard to Digest - Mackerel, eels, salmon, herring, halibut, salt fish, lobster, crabs, mussels, cod.
Vegetables Easy to Digest - Asparagus, French beans, cauliflower, beets, potatoes, lettuce. ...
Vegetables Hard to Digest - Artichoke, celery, spinach, cabbage.
Fruits and Drinks Easy to Digest - Apples, currants, raspberries, apricots, pears, plums, cherries, pineapples, chocolate, pickles.
 
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