The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-01-31
NURSERY COOKERY.
DIET IN DISEASE.
BY Christine Terhune Herrick.
(COntinupd from last Week1

Continued from last week.)
DRIED FLOUR BALL.
For this purpose the unbolted wheat
flour should be used. Tie a pound of it
up closely in a perfectly clean cotton
cloth or pudding bag Drop it into boil
ing water and boil steadily for 10 min
utes, filling up the saucepan from the
kettle as the water boils away. When
the cloth is opened remove the outer
doughty covering and the center will be
hard and dry. This may be grated and
added to the infants food. The grated
flour should first be rubbed to a paste
with a tablespoonful of milk then di-
luted with little more milk until it has
reached consistency when 1t will min
gle readily with the child's liquid food.
1t should not be given more than twice
day unless in extreme cases, and then
only under a Doctors orders.
Later authorities upon infants diet
say that better method of treating milk
or other food to be given to babies suf
fering with bowel weakness is to add to
the bottle a decoction of diastase,
made by sleeping a tablespoonful of
crushed matted barley grains over night
in two tablespoonfuls of cold water. In
the morning the liquid can be strained off
and is ready for use, and will convert
the starch in the pint of Cruel into dex-
trine in about fifteen minutes, after
which the cruel can be mixed with cows
milk and may be assimilated by even a
delicate infant But again the caution
must be uttered that nothing of this
kind should be given except when en-
dorsed by a physician.
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Is found and the child suffers from con-
stipation, wheat or barley Cruel may
be added to his milk with beneficial re-
suits. The barley is better than the
wheat, and if barley -four cannot be
found the ordinary pearl barley may be
used in its place.
BARLEY CRUEL.
Soak a tablespoonful of barley over
| night in enough cold water to cover It,
In the morning drain this Off and put
| the barley over the fire.in pint Of wa
ter. Boil this for five or six hours, filling
up the saucepan as the water boils away,
and keeping always pint of water in
the pot. Strain it off and set it aside to
cool. 1t will probably form a jelly and
should be used in the proportion of two
teaspoonfuls of the barley to a cupful
of the milk or other liquid food.
The babies who are nursed instead of
bottle fed must rely upon doctors for adj
vice as to means by which to regulate
their observation-disclosures these are
more likely to be normal than those of
the artifcially fed children.
1t is when the little creatures grow old
enough to forage for themselves, and,
escaping from the watch and ward of
their mothers, to take what pleases their
palates that they are likely to get into
trouble. This, too is the period when
injudicious adults begin to bestow can
dies and other sweets upon the young
sters to the detriment of the small
stomachs.
Always it should be borne in mind
many articles of food, harmless in health
may be actually poisonous to the child
suffering from disturbed digestion.
Let us glance for a moment at the foods
that should be avoided by the child who
is the victim of bowel trouble. Suppose
he has passed his fourth or fifth year and
is accustomed to such a diet as was ad-
vised in a recent paper of this series.
Potatoes and oatmeal which are among
his stand-bys when he is we'll must now
mush, hominy, wheaton grits, fresh veg
etables of all sorts and fruits must be
forbidden until his recovery. Butter and
cream should be taken sparipgly. Sim
pie broths of beef, chicken or lean NUT
ton and arrow root jelly may be given,
and occasionally a little scraped beef
may beaded to the diet. All food should
be administered frequently and in small
quantities, If the trouble is severe it
may be wise to provide stimulants, but
always under the doctors's orders.
ARROW ROOT JELLY.
Mix two teaspoonfuls of best Bermu-
da arrowroot with enough cold water tc
make it into a very liquid paste. About
three tablespoonfuls will be needed.
Stir this into half pint of boiling water
and cook, stirring constantly, until the
jelly is not only thick and smooth, but
clear. Let it become very cold, and give
| it to the child with cream and a little
powdered sugar, If it seems too favour
less, a little rose water, or few drops OF
vanilla may be added to the cream.
CHICKEN JELLY.
Cut the meat from a fowl weighing
about four pounds. and pound up the
bones with a potato beetle, or the fat
side of a Ratchet. Throw aside all fat
Put the fowl, meat and bones, over the
fire in two quarts of cold water, and
bring very slowly to boil. Let it SIM
mer at the side of the stove for five OIL
six hours, skimming from time to time
The liquid should be reduced about one
half. Strain the broth thus made, and
if you wish the jelly to be very clear, put
the soup back over the fire. and when It
returns to a boil throw in the white and
shell of an egg Let all boil together fol
about three minutes, remove the scum
that rises to the surface, strain the
soup once more, season it to taste with
salt, and put in mould to form.