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Print Friendly Recipe Recipe Information Source: From The American Frugal Housewife by Mrs. Lydia Child, 1833 Ingredients EGG GRUEL 1 pint new [whole] milk 4 eggs Sugar Nutmeg, grated From The American Frugal Housewife by Mrs. Lydia Child, 1833 ================================================ Preparation Boil a pint of new milk; Beat four new-laid eggs to a light froth, and pour in while the milk boils.Stir them together thoroughly, but do not let them boil; Sweeten it with the best of loaf sugar, and grate in a whole nutmeg. Add a little salt if you like it. Drink half of it while it is warm, and the other half in two hours. Comments Mrs. Child notes: "This is at once food and medicine. Some people have very great faith in its efficacy in cases of chronic dysentery."

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