A liquid food composed of water and a small portion of meal, or other farinaceous substance, boiled and seasoned.

When boiled, they will be eaten by poultry; and, mixed with any farinaceous substance, form an excellent food for them.

The fruit of the pirijao furnishes a farinaceous substance, as yellow as the yolk of an egg, slightly saccharine, and extremely nutritious.

Foods.-Soups ,clearor thickened with some well-cookedfarinaceous substance, mutton, clam or chicken broth, beef tea, peptonized milk, panopepton with crushed ice.

We have already said that all animals that live on farinaceous substances become fat; man obeys the common law.