Directions for Preparing Franklin Infant and Invalid Food
Oven, in the book's wordsA warm oven
Ingredients
Directions
Dry slices of light, sweet yeast bread in a warm oven.
Pound the dried bread fine in a mortar or roll it fine on a breadboard.
Sift the powdered bread through a fine sieve.
Mix with water to create a smooth paste suitable for infants and adults.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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