Raw egg white shaken into cold water, for infants, the elderly and fever patients.
1 cup cold water White of 1 egg 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon sugar Put the water, egg, lemon juice and sugar in a covered jar and shake until all the ingredients are thoroughly blended. Stand on the ice and shake again just before serving.
Mrs. Fryer's Loose Leaf Cook Book, 1922. Public domain; transcription unaltered.
Shaken cold, served cold, never heated at any point. There is no step here that would kill salmonella, and the recipe does not imagine one is needed.
The intended drinkers are infants, the elderly, convalescents and fever patients — the four groups for whom a salmonella infection is most likely to be severe.
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