Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-12-28
NURSERY COOKERY.
FOR VERY YOUNG CHILDREN.
BY Christine Terhune IIerirck.


CONTINUED from last week.
Surely there is sufficient opportunity
for variety in young childs diet tc
preclude the necessity for feeding him
with food announcement for him, After
he has PASSED the age at whiclsxhei re-
striction to milk diet Is relaxed, theit
Is plenty of food that can safely be CIV
en- without trespassing on forbidden
ground. Even before he has been weaneo
the milk may be supplemented by the
yolk of soft-boiled esq or little beef
juice. This may be given as early as ten
months, and after the child is weaned
cereals may be fed to him, as has been
alreadyl Stated in these columns. When
he is a year old the meals may be brought
down to five, and after while to four
day.
For his breakfast he may have stale
bread and warm milk. Whole-wheRt
bread is better than that made from the
bolted flour. This meal should be eaten
about o'clock, and may be followed al
II by bread and butter and another cup
of milk, or in place of this may be given
| one of the cereals, cooked as previously
| directed. The heartiest meal of the day
| should come between one and two, and
| may consist of beef-juice, with or with
| out oatmeal, more bread and butter and
| a little boiled rice or simple rice-pud-
ding. Or he may have well-baked po-
tato, moistened with beef-juice, and a
little junket At o'clock may come his
supper of bread and milk, like his break
fast, and If he Graves more food late at
night, he may have cup OF milk, sup
| plemented by whatever variety of pre-
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WHoLE-WHEAT BREAD.
Put into a mixing bowl two cupfuls o
fresh milk and two of boiling water. Stii
into 1t one teaspoonful each Of sugar ant
salt, and when the mixture is luke
warm, add to it half yeast-cake, which
has been dissolved In gill of warn
water. Mix With this quart of whole
wheat flour, and beat for five or six min
utes with wooden spoon until the bat
ter is very light. When 1t has reachet
this point beat in more flour. Make al
soft a dough as you can handle put i
on Toured bread-board, and knead TO
ten minutes. Set to rise in
moderately warm place for thre
hours, knead again for five min
utes, make into small loayes, and Sc
to rise once more. 1t should swell t
nearly twice its size before you put 1t II
the oven. If the loaves are small the
will bake in three-quarters of an houi
RICE PUDDING.
Wash half cupful of raw rice care
fully, and soak it for two hours in pin
of warm milk. Keep 1t at the require
temperature by putting 1t at the side G
the stove in an 'outer vessel of hot watel
At the end of the two hours have read
a quart of milk to which you have adde
hnlf teaspoonful of salt and pinch {
soda, and pour this upon the soake
rice. Turn all into baking dish, add
it a tablespoonful of butter and four ia
blespoonfuls of graduated sugar. Cove
and bake in slow oven for two hour
1t is well to set the pudding dish in
pan of hot water in the oven.
JUNKET.
Sweeten slightly a pint of milk ar
heat it blood-warm. II the rennet
strong 1t will need only a single tel
spoonful of 1t to make the junket. The
' are always directions on the outside
: the rennet bottles, telling in what pr,
Y portion it must be used. Set the bo,
. in which the milk has been put In
: warm place, and leave it there until
t is firm AS soon as it reaches this poir
r set 1t in cold place or on the Ice L.
with sugar and cream.
n Such is the infants diet for some tim
@ (To be continued next week) :