Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-21
Appetizing Food for Children
Proper Combinations Must Be Considered if Per
+. manent Results Are to Be Obtained in
I: the Family.

| a delicate brown. 1t will then re-
semble a daisy. Serve with toast
cut in fancy shape.
Meat and Vegetables.
| Soups and broths are a good form
| in which to provide the nutriment
| of animal food A little meat every
| day will do no harm, but 1t must
| be tender and well cooked, and eaten
| at the noon meal. Mutton, lamb and
| young beef are most suitable for
youthful stomachS. Veal and pork
| are not to be recommended. If a
child does not like meat hide the
flavor in stews, pies and vegetables.
Serve soup with bits of toast in tiny
squares or diamonds, or other shapes.
Do not serve too much at one time.
Chicken and, turkey are palatable
stewed and served with rice. If roast
chicken is used select portions which
are tender. Do not give child
highly seasoned stuffing or rich
gravy. Fried meats, especially those
that are pan fried or cooked in a
small amount of fat, should not be
given to very young children. Broil-
ing and roasting are the best meth
DDS of preparing tender meat. Tough
in a fireless cooker or first chopped
and then broiled
Vegetables and fruits are both
valuable because they supply iron,
lime and other mineral matter to
the body, as well as mild acids. A
child should be induced to eat vege-
tables in preference to rich meats
and heavy pastry. They should be
eaten every day. There is nothing
so healthful for children as we'll
cooked green vegetables. They should
be used as flavoring for soups or
SteWS, or added to milk or meat
stews, or served with meat gravy
with very little fat. Children may
be given the young and tender parts
of celery chopped and slightly sailed
and lettuce, as a sandwich filling.
Vegetables served as a separate dish
should be steamed, boiled, baked or
stewed, using the juice in which they
are cooked. Radishes and cucum-
bers should not be given to small
children. All vegetables should be
washed carefully before cooking.
Some fat is important in the diet of
children. They get some in butter and
milk. Salad oils of various kinds may
be given in small amounts, introduced
gradually in the diet. A good way to
serve it is on spinach and other
green's, or on tender salad vegetables.
DO not give such fatty foods as pastry,
fried meats or fried vegetables. In
winter diet should be more fatty
than in summer. but in no case should
a child be forced to eat fat.
Fruits and Sweets.
Fruit should be served in some form
the pulp of cooked fruits are safest
Fruit in gelatin can be served in many
attractive combinations. To serve an
orange and an apple, separate the
orange into sections and arrange them
round a plate like the petals of a
flower, with a circular piece of the
peeling in the center. Cut an apple in
thin sections like an orange, allowing
the sections to remain in position so
that it looks like whole apple. Put
inside some seedleSS FaiSinS or a few
dates with nut meats.
AS far as the important matter of
preventing constipation is concerned,
coarse grains and mildly acid fruits
serve the same purpose, such ras APP
pies oranges and grapefruit. . If fruits
are plentiful, the kind of cereal served
is not as important, but if fruit is
scarce, coarser cereals should be used
Sweets of good quality and in mod
crate quantities may be given after a
certain amount of solid food has been
eaten, but never on an empty stom-
ach. Some sugar is desirable in the
diet. but should be used in the form of
simple sweets, such as lump sugar.
maple sugar, sirups, honey and plain
pure candy.
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ling of powdered sugar moistened
with milk and favored with vanilla.
Mix a little cocoa with the sugar be-
fore moistening, If a chocolate filling
is desired Cut the sandwiches in at
tractive shapes. Crisp crackers put
together with little of this filling
are delicious also, and eaten with
glass of milk make a nourishing
lunch.
The drinking of plenty of pure wa
ter is important in a childs diet. Fruit
juices, fruit drinks, such as lemonade,
plain or favored with other fruit
juices and fruit ices are attractive
ways in which to give water to chill
dren, but most mothers are too busy
to prepare them except for sick child
rem or for parties or for other festive
occasions. Tea and coffee are stimu.
lants only, and ought not to be given
to children under ten years of age at
least.
AT children's parties there is dan
ger of overeating. This tendency will
be reduced if the refreshments are
served at such time as to take the
place of one of the regular meals of
the day. The same care should be
taken in selecting foods as in the cases
of the usual meals. At a party the
mother also has the responsibility of
feeding other peoples children.