=A Breakfast Dish=
Take stale brown bread, no matter how dry, and boil until it is soft like pudding. Serve hot, with cream.
=Cracker Tea for Invalids=
Take four Boston crackers, split open, toast to a delicate brown on each side. Put these into a bowl, or earthen dish of some kind, pour over them a quart of boiling water. Let it stand on the back of the stove half an hour. When cold, give two or three teaspoonfuls to the patient. It is nourishing, and the stomach will retain it when absolutely nothing else can be taken.