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SUCCESSFUL BABY CARE
The "CUP and SPOON"
STAGE
"νου CAD take a horse to the
water hut you cannot make him drink How many mothers think sorrowfully of the old say ing when the time for cup and spoon freding arrives and their hitherto easily managed baby sud. denly becomes the essence obstinacy?
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Drinking
difficulties will minimised, if not completely pre- vented, if baby has been given water or orange juice from a spoon right from the start. -
Gradual Stages.
An egg or coffee spoon 18 suit. able to begin with, and the fluid should be put on the little tongue 60 that it does not trickle out as the corners of the mouth or the spoon get bitten on by the gums.
Any time after six months, some- times earlier, drinking from an eggcup or a wide-lipped milk jug can be managed. Some babies are very clever at this, others taka a little longer to learn.
The term weaning actually, op: plies to changing from natural feeding to artificial, and the best time to do this is at eight or nine. months Sudden weaning should al ways be avoided, and at least two three days taken over each change -the ideal tine is a full week
First Solids,
In this way baby is gradually accustomed to artificial food, and therefore wall and contented, and there is no risk of discomfort or an abscess for the mother. The best method is to give one artificial feed a ray fire, then two, and so on.
There are simple directions for this and for introducing the first Bolids. Of course, if baby has to be weaned earlier no solids are needed, bat the method of changing on to artificial food should be ou
the same lines if upsets are to be
avoided.
Ankoin" is the baby food not only recommended but insisted ; up- on by all the state maternity hos. pitals in New Zealand. It contains a percentage of cod liver oil, whichi hosides being strengthening helps the baby to digest the milk.
Allenburys is also a very highly recommended food. and so simple in use owing to the careful way, it is graded for different stages of baby hood. My own baby had Allen burys from two weeks old and I have always felt justly proud of her firm uesh and strong vigtrous limbs. Now at six and a half de write a very serious attack of diphtheria she is still remarkable for her sturdy appearance and firm "fleshed limbs. All children love
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PURICO
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SOLE AND MUSHROOMS Blew some mushrooms till they are ready to make a In the liquor (to purée.
which has been added half an ounce of butter) poach a sole gently till it is done.
Now on the dish which will receive the sole spread & purée of mushrooms, on this lay the sole, and over it a Mormay sance, which sprinkle with "cheese glaze Ovan quickly in the
Apples With Mincement, Baked apples are always nicer when they are cooked
in pastry, but to make them really super-excellent they should arst be cored their centres filled with some
jelly sort of jam or
and
Bed currant, or spricot are the most sun-fillings, but mincement would be very good, and so would mara Inde and, for a novel sur prise, guava jam or jelly, Here is an opportunity for, pleasant experiment..
PINEAPPLE CONSERVE
Drain the syrup from a medium- sized tin "of pineappls and chop up the fruit. Wash half a pound, of dried apricote in hot water, drain and stand for 24 hours in a pint of cold water
At eight to nine months, if there is any difficulty it is helpful if some one other than the mother end give the artificial food, and in any case it is best for the little one to sit in a chair rather than on mother's knee..
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There arc various delightful chairs on the market to suit all purposes.in
Looking Ahead,
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teriorates considerably at months, and to put off weaning may cause baby to go down hill.
If any difficulties arise the chan- ges should be speeded up and made every three or four days, so that natural feeding is soon forgotten.
Bush can be done through pro riding a calm, cheerful atmosphere. The mother who is loath to give up feeding her child or who antici pates difficulties is hindering her little one's education and develop ment.
It is a pity to start bottles at eight or nine months, as this only means a further change later, and
Emotional disturbances are quick. may result in two bottles instead of one, and also prolonged suckingly conveyed from mother to child,
is not good for the .. Never give the breast if artificial food is refused; simply offer wol, bailed, unsweetened water and let hunger come to your aid.
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NUT DISHES
If the compradore presented you with a basket or two of nuts at Christmas you may still be wonder- ing how to dispose of them. The following recipes can all be used and babies and children aro ex for imported nuts though naturally they are better when minile with Wallnuts tremely sensitive to atmosphere.
Have's definite basis for feed-freshly gathered nuts. ing. Never consider trying, difor Brazile can be used instead of ferent foods or giving snacks from Hazel nuts. the table, or mushy pap. We have no right to experiment.
Mat MacarooEE, Ingredients-3 oz. of shelled
Babice take extra, big natural feeds during wearing and so often go quite happily without one or two meals and come to no harm. It is the baby whose mother cannot harden her heart who comes to stumbling-block is only another harm, for the mother's milk de milestone happily passed.
correctly balanced diet is not only necessary for baby's health, but it also makes for easy weaning nuts, oza of castor sugar, so that what might have been dwhites of eggs. ⠀⠀
OLD AND NEW
Some Fascinating Recipes
MEDIEVAL MINUEMENT
I canant resist offering A cips for Minced Pyes, which I have taken from a very old manuscript cookery book now in my hand, for here is something different:
round alices.
Also boil and peet half a pound of chestnuts and scald half a dozen French prunes, which you will then atone and halve,
Beat the whites very stiffly, add the sugar, and beat again. Stir in about 4ozs. of the nuts, finely minced, without skinning them Place in small round heaps on wafer paper on a floared tin and put a whole nut in the centre of each. Bake for half an hour in
a moderate oven
Nut
Salad
COME
To.... DINNER
AT this time of year when,
take especial pleasure in en- tertaining our friends a few hints may not be out of place. If you invite people to dinner, remember that the dinner is the chief item of entertainment. Let it be wortay, of your house and circumstanc
means allow. but not more pretentions than o
Let the light abjpe in the hall when they are due, and - receive room. It is a them in a warm good thing to offer them a glass of sherry or a simple cocktail; It strikes a note of hospitality and starts the evening well,
The setting of the tables is of the first importance, Spotless linen, shining silver, and w polished glass arouse pleasant
finishing pectations, while a bowl of freak
touch.. dowers provides the
lent and notarp small roast potatoes. served, or foam mathed improved by a table cream and garnished ed pareley
Ingredients-7 one of hazel pats one cooked beetroot medium sized nhead of celery, salad dressing Pat the sliced beetroot in a dish
As regards the actual mea and arrange on it the shelled, would suggest some such menn "Melt two ounces of butter in a skinned, and chopped nuts and this. A good soup, ruc saucepan, and in this cook for a shredded celery, Four-over, ABY ox-tail or artichoke, followed. Minced Pics made of Nest'e few minutes the sausage, chestnuts salad dressing or creem, season konst pheasant or duck with tag Tongues are the best of any, and and pranes, with four pears peel-with salt, pepper, and vinegar-lish tinned, peas,, may be ordered thus. Take od and quartered, and the turkey's fresh Neat's Tongue, boyl, blancu liver blanched and coarsely, chop: and mince it very small, either ped. Strain off the butter, pour hot or cold: then mince 4 pound in a glass of white wins, and stuff of beif met by it selfe, very the turkey with this mixture a small mingle them together, Here is a chestnut sweet, which and season them, with an ounces excellent and tastes like marrons
For sweets there could be of Cloves, and Mage beaten, some glaces. salt, had a preserved Orange,
Wash the rice and put into a lemon cream and plum tart and a little Lemmon peel, minced
double saucepan with the stock and Then a fancy cream cheese with a quarter of a pound of
Boil two pounds of chestnuts till cook until the liquid is absorbed butter and biscuits, Dessert sugar: 4 pound of Currans clean piekt, washt, and dryed, a little they are soft, then peel them and and the rice soft. This will take sente no obstacles. Walnuts are in Verjdine ad Rosewater, and as them through a sieve, Maka about two hours. Put the nuts season, apples, pears, fresh ping- quarter of a pint of Sack. Stir ock syrup with a pound of su through a mincing machine, add apples, and grapes. all these together, and fill your with the chestnut purée, and stir thoroughly into the rice... Season is really desirable...
gar savoured with vanilla, mix it the beaten yolk of egg, and mix course a glass of Madeira or por Pyes"
it well together till it becomes and form into rissoles. Dip the the substitution of sherry for thick paste
end of the rissole into the slightly. After dinner the guests- kill.
OHESTNUT PUBER
Nut Rissoles Ingredients-7 OTS. of hazel cuts shelled and peeled, I pint of vege table stock, 3 ors, of rice, 1488. salt and pepper.
By t the sack, these Fyes could easily be Shape the paste on the serving beaten white of the egg and rolf in turn to the sitting mom Attempted in the modern kitchen. I dias and decorate it with almonds breadcrumbs. Fry in hot fat, Mrs. Game, whose-cookery book and pieces of candied fruit. A Drain well, and serve garnished was published in the middle of the couple of hours before you want to with parsley... Eighteenth Century, gives a "gen est it, place it with some of the teel" way of roasting & turkey.yrup which you have set aside for
* Firit cut down the back, and the purpose. with a sharp-pen-knife bone it, then make your foremast, thus take a-lazgo fowl, or a pound of real, as much grated bread, half pound of sunt cut and beat very fine, a little beaten mace, two cloves, half a nutmeg grated about a large teaspoonful of lemon peel, and, the yolks of two
ORANGE TO PERFEOTION
will get angry when
Hazel Hut Roll
Ingredients,
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Fres
strong coffee should be served fire mediately, while the gusta ed down to cheerful conversation! An they will talk if they have had, pleasant dinner
But its success depends Amount of thought and trou hostess is prepared to take. matter details are Importa
Fresh
We can have ample choice of fruit from overseas, whether in a kernal (skinned and salad or for dessert. Ishould like of cooked potatoes, one egg, salt, to end with a way of eating orang pepper, and cayenne ges, which usually at dessert are rather a messy business. Mash the potatoes with just
enough milk to bind them, and thix bread thoroughly with the mi Beat up the egg and mix into potatoes and nuts Form
all rolls, four well, and bili a-baking in with, plenty ping...-Baka "in a shot over
Baste thera Serve with tomato
Take a knife with a thin and ex tremely sharp blade, or one of Mix all together, with a lit those knives with serrated blades the pepper and salt, fill up the which are used for preparing vege places where the bones came out, tables, only see that it is of stai and fill the body that it may less steel. Hold the orange on look just as it did before, sew up fork and peel it completely, so as the back, and roast it. You may to expose all the flesh.
have oyster sauce, celery sauce. Then pass the
or just as you please; but good gravy.in
garnish
with lemon, is as
Bimmer the apricots till tender, add the chopped pineapple and the pineapple syrup, two ouness of thing seeded raisins, two of chopped Waterway nule, and the grated rind and juice Even so,
of a lemon; sugar in the propo tion of stuting
tion of one pound to
fruitazaw
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and salt
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