Mrs. Lincoln's Boston cook book

Kaoahout des Arabes. {Mrs. Devereux.) 1 pound rice flour. The Boston Cook Booh. Gluten Gems. 2 cups gluten. % teaspoonful salt. 2 teaspoonfuls baking-powder. 2 tablespoonfuls sugar. 1 egg. 2 cups water or milk. Bake in very hot buttered gem pans, in a hot oven, half an hour. Let very 3'oung children have mother's milk above everything else ; but if this be impossible, dissolve one ounce of sugar of milk or loaf sugar in three fourths of a pint of boiling water ^ and mix, as required for use, with an equal quantity of fresh cow's milk. Give it, slightly warm, from a sweet, clean bottle. Sugar of milk is quite expensive, but it is very much better for an infant than cane sugar. Teething children should have the milk from but one cow ; the cow should not be fed on green corn nor sour apples, as these produce acidity in the milk. A little thin, well-boiled oatmeal, or farina gruel, may be added to the milk. For Summer complaint, use scalded (not boiled) milk, prepared flour, roasted rice, boiled, mashed, and thinned with milk ; also rice jell}^ or barky gruel. Avoid all purely starchy gruels, like arrowroot, sago, and cornstarch, upon which many children are fed to death. For constipation, a little salt added to cow's milk is often beneficial ; also gruel made from prepared corn meal and wheat flour, and oatmeal gruel. For older children use oatmeal, hominy or farina mush, and ripe fruit. Prepared Flour {for Infants) . — Tie one pint of flour in a stout cloth, put it into boiling water, and let it boil three hours. Turn out the flour ball, and scrape off the gluten which will be found in a mass on the outside of the ball and is not desirable. The inside will prove a dry powder, which is very astringent. Grate a tablespoonful of this powder from the ball as wanted ; wet it in cold Diet for Infants and Young Children. The Boston Cook Book, milk or water, and stir it into one cup of boiling milk. Boil five minutes. Add a little salt. This is excellent for teething children. If they be troubled with constipation, use one quarter part corn meal and three quarters wheat flour, boil as above, and stir some of the grated lump into boiling cream and water, using one part cream to six parts vKtter. For an infant the preparation should be thin enough to be taken from a bottle. Flour, after being cooked in this way, and then reduced to a finely divided form, loses its adhesive quality ; and the particles are more easily separated and digested. Children and growing persons need the most nutritious food, and plenty of it at regular intervals ; but nothing stimulating nor exciting. They should be given, and compelled to take, sufficient time for eating ; and should be taught to masticate everything slowly and thoroughly. They should eat milk ; whole-wheat and cornmeal bread ; oatmeal, farina, and hominy mush ; plenty of ripe fruit raw, and stewed fruit sweetened ; beef, mutton, venison, and poultry, either roasted, broiled, or boiled ; baked potatoes, and asparagus ; green peas, beans, and corn, if ever}^ hull be first broken or cut ; eggs, omelets, and custards ; plain sponge cake ; ice-cream, if not too hard and cold, and eaten slowly ; simple fruit and bread puddings ; fruit, tapioca, and farina ; plain gingerbread and molasses cookies ; whole-wheat cookies and wafers.