Diet for Biliousness.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 130, 11 February 1909, Page 3

Diet for Biliousness.

Allowed: Clear soups, fish, meat of ail kinds except veal or pork, poultry, game, ham, bacon, bread white brown or wholemeal ; choose the coarser breads with bran or wholemeal when possible. The bread should be taken in fairly large quantities, and the kinds varied from time to time. It should never be new. The crust also should be eaten. Toast with butter or dripping is good. Gingerbread often acts well. Nuts are usually contraindicated, but in some cases Brazil nuts or dry walnuts, well masticated, appear to help. Oatmeal, crushed oats with sugar and milk, or golden syrup, or old-fashioned treacle; cabbage, broccoli, caulioflwer, sprouts, French beans, endive, celery, spinach, salad > with abundant oil, onions, and Svpanish onions; apples steamed or baked; figs, prunes, dates, Normandy pippins or pears, stewed; oranges, grapes, bananas, strawberries, gooseberries, currants, etc t ; jam, marmalade, preserved fruits, hot or cold water; tea, always freshly made, and never strong or taken with meat; coffee, thin cocoa. Forbidden: New bread and pastry; eggs, except in moderation and highly cooked, the best form is "scrambled" eggs, peas, broad beans, new potatoes; nuts of ali kinds; milk, except in small quantities.