578 MEALS MEDICINAL. 
should have some formation left when dished up.” This is a 
famous dish with the cottagers on Deeside, and when once done 
the pan is drawn to the side of the large wood fire, and is ready 
for all comers; slow cooking is essential. For “Golden 
Potatoes,’ take some cold, boiled, new Potatoes, dip them into 
egg, and bread-crumb, and fry a golden brown; sprinkle with 
chopped parsley. These go well with bacon at breakfast for 
supplying animal warmth, and fat, to a consumptive, or attenu- 
ated invalid. For a Potato pudding (Roly-poly) : ‘‘ Take a pint 
of hot mashed Potato, a pint of flour, a quarter of a pound of 
butter, a pinch of salt, and moisten with water, or milk, into a 
dough ; roll the paste out, and spread it with any jam which 
has no stones; roll, and tie up, and steam for an hour and a 
quarter.” A very nice sauce to eat with this dainty pudding 
may consist of “two ounces of butter, and two tablespoonfuls 
of sugar, beaten together, and added to one well-whipped egg ; 
go on beating, whilst pouring in by degrees a little boiling water 
till the sauce looks like cream.” 
Potato cream is a capital help for children towards preventing 
rickets, or scorbutic troubles; this may be made by passing 
thoroughly-steamed Potatoes through a fine sieve, and intimately 
mixing the floury material thus obtained, with milk until it 
has the consistence of cream. From a teaspoonful to a table- 
spoonful of such mixture may be added to the contents of an 
infant’s feeding-bottle, increasing the quantity according to the 
age of the child. The bending of leg bones, and spine, which 
characterizes rickets in children, is usually ascribed to a deficiency 
of phosphate of lime, and potash, in the food, but this is not 
wholly the cause; there is, furthermore, an underlying consti- 
tutional defect for assimilating the mineral substances necessary 
to produce healthy growth of the bones. Children with rickets 
require during their second year such nourishment as scraped 
taw beef, marrow, cream, and whey (in which all the phosphates 
are retained). Potatoes never cause rheumatism by provoking 
acidity ; on the contrary, their potash salts tend to prevent it. 
For the sleeplessness of nervous indigestion, to take for supper 
a steamed good-sized Potato, masticating also (though without 
swallowing) its cooked coat, will often prove a successful soporific. 
In the most modern treatment of diabetes Potatoes are allowed, 
it being found that they cause less glucose (grape sugar) to occur 
as found in the urine than an equivalent quantity of wheaten 
