Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-06-07
Helps For the Housekeeper

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Farmers Bulletin. No. 955. is called
use of Wheat Flour Substitutes in Bak-
ing" and is one of the most helpful
books that 1 have seen. 1t comes
nearer our southern methods than the
farmers bulletins generally do. l hope
that a great many copies will be sent
for. There have come to me a great
many letters asking for wheat substi-
tute recipes, this book and War Econ
omy in Food" sent for and studied,
will serve you we'll. This Farmers
bulletin No. 955 gives the proportions
with buttermilk and soda, and that is
what we need.
1 know that half of the women pride
themselves on never measuring
thing" and then frequently have to eat
bread as yellow as sulphur. a tin spoon
is easy to get and can be kept in the
soda box or jar. | buy six packages
of soda at a time, for | am as much en-
titled to the extra package as the mer-
chant is to the price. l put three pack
ages in a glass jar with top and
spoon and measure everything l mix.
If you will remember that level tea
spoonful of soda is for two cups of
sour milk you can change any recipe
that calls for baking powder and water
or sweet milk and there is much more
nourishment in bread made with milk
and eggs.
Don't let the price of eggs tempt you
to sell what you might eat. Too many
cases of pellagra come from insufficient
nourishing food. Children need eggs and
milk, plenty of it. also ripe fruit to
supply the growing body. / often see
people Dragging on saving eggs by us
ign baking powders. It's simply inviting
pellagra.
This is no theory of mine. / know a
doctor who found over one dozen chill
dren with that dread disease. They had
not been taught to eat vegetables nor
eggs and lived on syrup and bread He
put them on eggs, milk and butter, with
good beef at least once a week, oftener
if they could get it, Then he gave them
a tonic that made them hungry all the
time. Potatoes, rice, peas, beans, as well
as green's, were given them and every
one got well. Too many little ones are
given everything that they see when
they need only their mothers milk and
their digestive organs are ruined.
Strong. healthy babies are stuffed before
they are a year old and their foolish
parents boast that they can eat any
thing. Watch such children ten years
and see the stunted creatures they be-
come, or see the martyrs to indigestion.
I've seen boys four years old spit up
all they had eaten. That is not natural.
AS one woman said to a neighbor whose
excuse for giving her baby ham was
that il cried for some, your baby or
mine would cry for a roach or grass
hopper if we held it, but you wouldn't
give it that even if it did cry, and ham
is as bad for a baby's stomach as
bugs"
Summer is here and if you are as
careful with your babies as Uncle Sam
is with his soldiers you will not lose so
many. Did you know that more babies
die in their second year or by that
time than soldiers?
You do not mean to be accessory
to their Deaths" but when you feed
them indigestible food, let flies get in
their milk, fail to give them fresh,
clean water, to say nothing of letting
them drink tea or coffee, you certainly
contribute causes for disease.
But this has nothing to do with the
subject L first brought up. l think that
you are mistaken. Good bread made
with milk, eggs and some shortening
is close to a balanced ration. If you
cannot get your family to eat eggs
cooked as usual double the quantity you
put in your bread, or make a. custard
of eggs and milk and just little sugar,
Inen put Jelly on II aIIer II Is DdkeO
In making breads with potatoes or
meal you will find all recipes are i'm
proved if the potatoes or meal has beeh
cooked.
We are urged to eat potatoes and
am giving you a good recipe for NUT
fins.
l use two eggs and two teaspoonfuis
of sweet milk. Stiff batter makes good
mullins.
Potato Muffins-Sweet or Irish pota-
toes and sugar, syrup or honey may
be omitted. One and a half cupfuls of
mashed potatoes. Same quantity of
wheat flour One teaspoonful of salt
Three teaspoonfuls of baking powder
If desired sweet, put in two tablespoon
fuls sugar or syrup. One or two eggs.