Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1900-03-02
NURSERY CUOk cry.
DIET IN DIS EASE.
BY Christine Terhune Herrick.
Continued from last week.)

tHOGd, since iilr lOiilltI QISOIQCI IL
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 is of the strongest
| advantage to the child's general health
to keep the bowels open, but it is a 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
Ell.
To lessen disposition to constipation
| coarse meals and breads will be found eX-
ceilent. 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 moiasses
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 a half cup of molasses
and a whole cup of sweet milk. Beat
we'll dissolve a scant teaspoontul of soda
in little boiling water, whip this INFO
the batter, turn it into we'll CREASED
Boston brown bread mould. cover tight
| ly. and boil steadily for three hours.
Turn it out on fiat dish. when done, and
| set it in the oven for five minutes to dry
off before sending to table.
QUICK WHOLE WHEAT BREAD.
Sift "a teaspoonCul of salt and two of
| baking powder into a quart of whole
| VI heat -four. Into this chop a tablespoon
ful of butter or sweet dripping. Moisten
| it with enough milk to make soft dough
| about three cupfuls will be required
| handling it 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 a brisk
| oven. When cold it may be cut like
raised bread. If preferred, the dough
may be moulded with the hands into
biscuit, or rolled into a sheet and cut into
| rounds.
Many students of detetics 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.
Stir two slightly beaten eggs into a
pint of warmed milk, and add to them a
teaspoonful of brown sugar and a table
spoonful of butter melted. Beat in,
| little "a a time a cup and half of whole
wheat flour. or enough to make a 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 MCSH MUFFINS.
Make a good corrmeal mush by cook
ing a cupful Of yellow cornmeal for an
hour with two cups of boiling water in
a double boiler. Before it cools sti, IN
Il tablespoonful If butter. Add to 1t.
when cool, a cupful of milk. three we'll
beaten eggs, and three tahlespoonfuls of
whole wheat -four. to which has been
aCded a small tedspoonful of baking
powder, beat all well. and bake i'm thor
oughly creased gem pans or muffin tins.
SteWed fruits. like prunes or figs and
apple sauce are sometimes efIicacious in
controlling constipation in children
and in grown persons also. Abundance
of Water,-neVer Iced should be drunk,
better perhaps, before OF after meals
IMAM WINE e"''l'S' ana the chlld with
TINS Complaint Sh"uid he encouraged To
dr'hK glass 81 water al bedtime. Fresh
green Nese'ahles should be given but
'n'Se containing much starch would
better be Wllhheld' Eggs have ten
uehcy TO cohSu'pdle' as go sweet pastry
and ifled foodS' simple puddinss made
OF rice or sage may he given to the child
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 and figs and should
abstain irons nearly all berries. Cheese