farina

• [Pg 103] This over, a bucket of salt water is served to each mess, by way of “finger glasses” for the ablution of hands, after which a kidd ,—either of rice, farina, yams, or beans,—according to the tribal habit of the negroes, is placed before the squad. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver, by Brantz Mayer and Theodore Canot.
• Then freshly milked milk, or gruel made from farina or barley, should be poured through it. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
• The hem at the edge of the wax is to represent the anthers; affix the stamina when so prepared to the end of a piece of strong wire, and cover them with farina (my second yellow powder). —  The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling
• To the end of these may be observed in nature small particles of farina, this is produced (as in the former instruction of fuchsia fulgens), by dipping them while moistened with gum water into dry powder. —  The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling
• Her employment was, with three or four men detailed to assist her, to boil water in the lee of a sand-hill, to wash the wounds of the men who were daily struck by rebel shot, to prepare tea and coffee, and various dishes made from dried fruits, farina, and desiccated milk and eggs. —  Woman's Work in the Civil War A Record of Heroism, Patriotism, and Patience

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