New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1916-05-03
NOON pAY=MEAIxFoR CHILDREN
Special Lunches and Suggested Bill
T. ,'' of Fare For Reconsideration of
First Importance.
SELECTED BILL OF FARES.

SELECTED BILL OF FARES.
1. Eggs, boiled, coddled, poached
or scrambled; bread and butter; spinach
or other greens; cake. !;
g. Beef stew with vegetables; milk:
crisp, thin tea biscuits; honey. ...
3. Dried bean or pae PURGE; toast;
baked apple; cookies.
4. Vegetable-milk soup; zwieback.
rice with maple sugar and butter, or with
milk or cream.
S. Potato chowder; crackers; Jelly
sandwiches.
= 6. Cold meat; creamed potatoes;
peas; bread and butter; frozen custard
or plain ice cream and plain; cake, g.;
Z. Lamb chop; baked potatoes; dread
and butter; sliced mixed fruits; cookies.
8. Baked omelet with spinach, kale
or other green's; bread and butter; apple
sauce; cake. -<~ ,,,..., .s:e...
9. Milk toast; string beans;. sweet
fruit; cake. ''.'f1 - r g.
1o. Boiled potatoes; Goldfish gravy;
bread and butter; lettuce; custard.
There is no reason why:the ordinary
family dinner should not be suitable
for school children or served in awav
that adapts it to their needs according
to Farmers Bulletin 7l2, School
Lunches" just issued by the United
States Department of Agriculture. The
usual first course of meat and vegetables
contains nothing except the meat which
cannot be given even to the youngest
children. The vegetables, providing they
are carefully prepared by simple meth
DDS, are specially needed and. can often
be made attractive to children by being
served with a little meat gravy AS a
substitute for the meat itself, milk can
be provided in the case of the younger
children. These articles, with the bread
and butter, provide most of the food
needed. -
The dessert course issuitable for chill
dren as we'll as for grown people, unless
it consists of rich pastries or buildings.
f21e latter are not considered wholesome
for children, if for no other reason than
that they are likely to lead to overeating.
Such desserts as fruit, fresh or cooked,
with cake; cereals, with milk or cream
and sugar; custards and custard pud-
dlngs; gelatin dishes; simple ice cream
water ices and other simple desserts may
be given.
Whether or not the family meal is
healthful for children depends not only
on the food materials selected, but also
on the way in which they are cooked.
Simple methods are to be preferred from
the standpoint of health as we'll as from
that of the housekeeper's time. All
dishes that are likely to contain over
heated and scorched fats, such as foods
carelessly fried in pan in small amount
OF fat, should be avoided. Deep-fat
frying is open to fewer objections, since,
If properly done, foods will absorb little
fat and the fat will not scorch. Vege-
tables cooked in water or in their own
Juices and seasoned with salt and little
y butter or cream are easier to prepare
than those that are served with white
sauce, scalloped, or cooked in other
elaborate ways.
What is said above applies equally to
all meals. There is, however, one special
precaution that applies to the noon meal
when it is hurried. This refers to tough,
hard foods that are likely to escape
proper mastication. It is mistake to
think that the foods given to children
must always be soft or finely divided, for
children's teeth need exercise quite as
much as their muscles do. When. time
for eating is limited, however, it is we'll to
omit foods that are difficult to chew, and
in extrmee cases it may be necessary to
serve only soft or finely divided foods
sandwiches made from crustless bread
with finely chopped filings, for example.
Before resorting to this, however, it is
we'll to make sure that the time for eat
ing and for insistence on good table man.
ners is not unnecessarily cut short, The
= advantage of putting the meal on the
Table promptly and of having foods served
in Individual portions, or at least ready
to eat when they are brought to the table,
should be kept in mind. To have the
meat already sliced and the dessert in !
cups instead of in one large dish, from
which individual portions must be served,
and to follow the same general plan with