The Portland daily press., 1900-03-02
NURSERY COOKERY.
DIET IN DISEASE.
BY Christine Terhune Herrick.
CONTINUED from last week.

The diet in constipation Is in some re.
spects more impor tant than that in diar-
rhoea, since the former disorder is
IN many cases more likely than the lat
ter to become chronic. The habit may
be regulated more beneficially by diet
than by drugs. 1t 10 Of the strongest
advantage to the child's general health
to keep the bowels open, but II Is fact
that many mothers who guard watch
fully against a costive tendency In their
babies, relapse into great carelessness
in this matter as their children grow old
er.
To lessen a disposition to constipation
coarse meals and breads will be found ex-
cellent Graham bread or gems, rye.
corn. whole wheat or Boston brown
bread, mush. cracked wheat, oatmeal
and similar preparations are admirable.
with these a little good molasses viii
prove a useful corrective Of the trouble.
Cream should be eaten with the cereals.
gingerbread sweetened with molasses
and brown sugar is often helpful.
BOSTON BROWN BREAD.
Sift together one and half cups each
of cornmeal and white or whole wheat
flour, with a half teaspoonful of salt.
Stir into them q half cup Of molasses
and q whole cup OF sweet milk. Beat
well, dissolve a scant teaspoonful OF soda
in a little boiling water. whip this into
the batter, turn It into well creased
Boston brown bread mould. cover tight
ly. and boil steadily for three hours.
Turn II out on a fiat dish. when done, and
set Il in the oven for five minutes to dry
off before sending to table.
QUICK WHOLE WHEAT BREAD.
Sift a teaspoonful of salt and two OF
baking powder into a quart OF whole
" heat flour. Into this chop tablespoon
full of butter or sweet dripping. Moisten
IL with enough milk to make soft dough
about three cupfuls will be required
handling II as little and as lightly as
possible. Have the dough very soft.
Form with the hands into small loaves.
and bake in brick shaped tins In brisk
oven. When cold it may be cut like
raised bread. II preferred, the dough
may be moulded with the hands into
biscuit, or rolled into a sheet and cut into
rounds.
Many students of dietetics consider
the quickly raised bread better than that
which has been raised with yeast The
bread for which the recipe has just been
given Is easily made and is generally
satisfactory.
WHOLE WHEAT GEMS.
Stir two slightly beaten eggs into
pint OF warmed milk. and add to them
teaspoonful OF brown sugar and a table,
spoonful of butter. melted. Beat in.
little at a time, a cup and half OF whole
wheat -four. or enough to make good
batter, using the spoon vigorously and
beating the batter we'll up from the bot
tom. Have ready gem pans, creased and
heated. and turn the batter into these.
Bake in a very hot oven. Graham gems
may be made In the same way.
CORN MUSH MUFFINS.
Make a good cornmeal mush by cook
ing a cupful Of yellow cornmeai for an
hour with two cups OF boiling water In
q double boiler. Before 1t cools stir In
q tablespoonful of butter. Add to 1t.
when cool. a cupful of milk, three we'll
beaten eggs, and three tablespoonfuls OF
whole wheat -four, to which has been
added a small teaspoonful of baking
powder, beat all we'll, and bake in thor
oughly CREASED gem pans or muffin tins.
steWed fruits IKE pruhes or hss' anu
apple sauce are sometimes eihcaclous III
controlling constipation IN chiiureh'-
and IN grown persons also. Abundance
OF water,-never iced,-should be drunk,
better, perhaps. before or after meals
than while eating' ana .the chlid with
this complaint should De encouraged 10
drink glass OF water at pedtime. fresh
green vegetables should be gwen put
those containing much starch would
better be withheld EGGS have ten
dency to consutpate' as DO sweet pastry
and fried foods. simple puodings mace
Of rice or sage may be given to the enid
and plain indian pudding, eaten with
cream sweetened with maple or brown
sugar, Is excellent children suffering
from constipation should avoid all dried
fruits except prunes ana ngs' and should
abstain from nearly all berries. Cheese
and pickles should have no place In the
young chtld's dietary ana more especial
ly to be condemned for aQy one affiiCt-