Chocolate cream can be found in a section titled “tasty desserts.” It would have been served after lunch or dinner. It requires the following ingredients: one box gelatine, a quarter of warm milk, four tablespoons chocolate, and three tablespoons sugar. The recipe is simple and easy. All it requires is boiling milk, stirring in ingredients, placing it in a cool place, and serving it with whip cream. The gelatine, sugar, and chocolate comes from packages. It is interesting how the working and middle class were able to buy high amounts of sugar and chocolate. It means that chocolate and sugar was not exclusive to the upper classes at the time. They went from being symbols of wealth to a working and middle class food stable. The lower classes ate sugar to get energy and the middle class consumed it to make themselves feel like they were the upper class.

Milk Punch can be found under the “Invalid Cookery” section, which is dedicated to recommending meals for the sick. To make milk punch, a person needs add two teaspoons of sugar and half an ounce of brandy or sherry to half a pint of cold fresh milk. Simplicity is one of this recipe’s goal. Sick people would not have to exert energy making it and could rest instead. Liquids are easy to digest. However, the ingredients are inappropriate for the sick. If the milk is sour or unpasteurized, it could make the patient’s condition more severe. Alcohol is bad for the liver. Sugar is unhealthy in general. This reveals people did not have a good understanding of health and nutrition. Even medical companies like Alonzo O. Bliss Medical Company lacked knowledge. The working and middle class did not have institutions that protected them from disease.