424 MEALS." MEDICINAL. 
catarrh into a profuse perspiration, and he wakes almost well the 
next morning. For Lemon Whey: boil a pint of milk with a 
teaspoonful or two of fresh lemon-juice, and then strain through 
muslin, squeezing all the liquid from the curd. If this curd 
be well broken up after coagulation, and all the liquid be 
thoroughly drained out, much of the fat, and some of the 
divided casein of the milk will pass into the whey, and will 
thereby much increase its nutritive properties. 
As a safeguard against accidental diarrhea when travelling 
in hot countries, an efficient means may be found in fresh lemon 
juice. The patient should lie down, and keep sipping a mixture 
of half lemon-juice, and half water (first boiled, and cooled), or 
simply sucking lemons until the symptoms have ceased ; there 
is no risk of taking the juice to excess. An excellent “ cocktail” 
to be given when tired, and thirsty, may be made with one fresh 
egg, one tablespoonful of pounded sugar, four or five squeezes 
of fresh lemon-juice, and four or five small lumps of ice. Fill up 
with cold water. Mash well, and strain into a large glass, grating 
a little nutmeg on top. For Lemon Pie (a southern recipe) : 
take the yolk of four eggs, beaten to a cream, with a cupful of 
granulated sugar, and the grated rind of a lemon. Peel the 
lemon, removing every particle of white rind, and cut it into 
thin slices. Have a pie plate lined with puff paste, arrange the 
slices of lemon thereupon. Add enough milk to the eggs, and 
sugar to fill up the plate, pour this in, and bake until set. Beat 
the whites of the eggs to a stiff froth, and stir in two large heaped 
tablespoontfuls of sugar, putting the same on top of the pie; 
then bake a light brown. Charles Dickens, in a letter to Mark 
Lemon, when the latter was editor of Punch, and overwrought 
with the literary strain, thus admonished him :— 
“*O my Lemon, round and fat! 
O my bright, and right, and tight ’un ! 
Think a little what you’re at : 
Leave your work, and come to Brighton.” 
Lemons grow in special abundance at Mentoni; and a 
legend obtains there that Eve, when banished from the garden 
of Eden, carried away with her two or three Lemons, and 
wandered about with them until she came to Mentoni, which 
seemed so like Paradise that she settled there, and planted 
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