Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1915 — BABY’S SECOND YEAR [ARTICLE]

BABY’S SECOND YEAR

DEVELOPMENT THEN DEPENDB ON PROPER FOOD. The Following Sample Meals for a Healthy Child May Be Given With Perfect Bafety—List of "Tastes" to Be Avoided. (Prepared by the Children’s Bureau, U. 8. Department of Labor.) After the baby Is finally weaned from the breast, at about one year of age, he too often seems to have a setback. His development does not progress as satisfactorily as during the first year, and the regular gain in weight does not proceed as before. The trouble usually lies in the baby’s failure properly to digest the new foods given to him at this period. In addition to foods suitable for the period between nine and twelve .months, after he Is a year ora he may have a small saucer of well-cooked, strained cereal twice a day, and will require about one quart of milk during 24 hours. At fifteen months he may have a little rare beef, or well-cooked chicken or mutton. Meat for a baby should be boiled, roasted or broiled, never fried, and should be given to the baby scraped or finely minced. The following are sample meals for a day for a healthy child from eighteen months to two yqars old: (An ounce is two tablespoonfuls.) 7 a. m. —Milk, 8 to 10 ounces; piece of zwiebach, toast or dried bread. 9 a. m.—Orarfge Juice, 2 ounces. 10 a. m. —Cereal, 2 tablespoonfuls; cup milk, toast or dry bread. 2 p. m.—Broth, 6 ounces; meat, 1 tablespoonful; vegetable (spinach), 1 tablespoonful; stale bread, 1 piece; baked apple, 1 tablespoonful. 6 p. m.—Cereal, 1% tablespoonfuls; milk, 6 to 8 ounces; toast or bread. 10 p. m.—Milk, 8 ounces in cup (may be omitted). The following rules for cooking and preparing certain of these articles may be helpful to mothers: Toast. —Bread one day old, cut in very thin slices; slices placed on edge in a toast rack In an oven to dry, Leave oven door partly open. Broth.—Of round steak, one pound; of water, one pint. Put the meat on In cold water and allow It to come to a boil, then lower the flame so that It basely simmers for three or four hours. Remove the meat and add enough water to nftke up the original amount of liquid; strain through a wire sieve and set aside to cool. When cold the fat Is removed in a solid piece, leaving a clear liquid or jelly. Heat a small portion when it is time to feed the baby. Keep the jelly covered and on ice. Meat. —One tablespoonful. Take meat, round or sirloin steak, scraped with a silver spoon. When you have the desired amount, shape into a pat and broil on a hot, dry spider. When done, add a little salt. Or, a piece of rare round or sirloin steak, the outer part having been cut away, is scraped or shredded with a knife. Spinach.—Cook spinach in salted water until tender. Pour cold water over it and drain. Rub through a fine sieve. Baked Apple.—Apple baked threequarters Of an hour. Skin and core removed, two tablespoonfuls of pulp strained through sieve. Cereal, Flour Preparations.—Cereal preparation, three-quarters of a cupful cooked with one quart of water for three-quarters of an hour in double boiler. Add enough water to keep moist. Oatmeal. —Have a pint of water boiling in the top of the double boiler; add one-half teaspoonful of salt and drop In gradually one-half cupful of oatmeal flakes, stirring all the while. Cook for three hours and strain through a wire sieve. Pour on it one to two ounces of milk. It Is important, also, to know what not to feed the baby. It is a great temptation to please the baby by giving him “tastes” of various kinds of foods, especially when he Is fretful. But this will almost surely result in his harm. Never give him candy, cakes, doughnuts, pastry, fresh bread, griddle cakes, sirup or molasses, pork or tough meat of any kind, bananas, overripe fruits, pickles, tea, coffee, soda water or beer, nor the meats, vegetables and other things appearing on the family table.