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After five years of age the diet of the child gradually increases, and at the age of ten the child is probably eating the same food as the grown-ups. Supper usually consists of sandwiches and cocoa, cereals, or cream soups. These soups are of value, particularly if there is a meat stock or vegetable used as the base. Desserts for children should be simple. Gelatine, custard, prune whip, bread and butter pudding, and ice cream are some of the desserts recom- mended. The gelatine may be colored pink, making it pretty to look at and of more interest. Menus for the child follow: Menu 1 Orange juice Oatmeal Top milk and sugar Dropped egg on toast Milk 55 56 THE INTERNATIONAL COOK BOOK Menu 2 Stewed prunes Cereal Top milk and sugar Buttered toast Milk Menu 3 Cooked cereal with dates, top milk or cream Scrambled eggs Buttered toast Milk or cocoa Menu 4 Apple sauce Cereal Top milk and sugar Whole wheat toast Jelly Cocoa Menu 5 Dry cereal, sliced ripe bananas with top milk and sugar Graham toast Cocoa CHILD'S DINNER Menu 1 Lamb chop Baked potato Spinach Floating Island Milk Menu 2 Cream of carrot soup Lettuce sandwiches Fruit gelatine Sugar cookies Cocoa Menu 3 Vegetable plate Bread and butter sandwiches (string beans, mashed potato, summer squash, carrots) Irish moss pudding Milk Menu 4 Tomato omelet Sliced oranges Milk Baked potato Sponge cake Menu 5 Creamed chicken Rice Vanilla ice cream Peas Milk M£NUS AND TABLE SERVICE 57 CHU U-S HOME LUNCH Menu 1 Cream ot ««kfy »oap Liltact tUMhikb Omoa Ufjocft pikld^ Gmm Menu 9 Minced lamb cxn toast ^cod t<>mato Menu 3 Y«f<?Utik soup wjth notxilt* Oraharo brtrad am! butter »4ndwkh«» Bitted pudding Milk Mt?nu 4 E^^ i !a goldeixrod Stt»w^p«»dte» VaAilkwaltr Milk Menu 5 Fiskh chowder Br^d i»ntl buttrr ^tandwich Lettuce and tomato smkd KhuUtib !i4uc« l^Uy utx^vi^ Cocoa SCHOOL LUNCH Menu 1 ECC tandw^ch^ Whole tomato Oatme>aJ cookk* Cocoa Menu 2 Oiidben Mikdvk)ie» (>r<»A|^ MoUsnes «>i»k us ( \k\'>h Mam .> WT^ote wheat sandwich (^ tr^iu thoc*© and date*) Cupoake Appk> Mrim -J Peamtt builrr s^nviwivhrs Jrlly sanvhvii:h StrA\xl>crrirs \>jlh the huU Milk Menu S Cho(>(>ed roast \mi aandiHdbei niMcookkt Chenki 58 THE INTERNATIONAL COOK BOOK Cocoa and milk are carried in a thermos bottle with the school lunch. Creamed soups may sometimes be added to these menus, and when they are they may also be carried in a thermos bottle. The children's party is a real event in their lives. Usually it is a birthday party, and the desire on the part of the child to enter- tain should be encouraged. Charm of manner, which is appre- ciated later in Ufe, may be developed and cultivated when the child is very young. Menus for the party are suggested. These may be varied easily, according to the age of the child. Menu 1 Creamed chicken on toast Lettuce sandwiches Tomato sandwiches Vanilla ice cream Angel cake Milk or cocoa Menu 2 Fruit salad in orange basket Sliced chicken sandwich Jelly sandwich Bavarian cream (pink) Milk or cocoa Menu 3 Gelatine salad Cream cheese and jelly sandwich Milk Chocolate ice cream Cup cakes Menu 4 Pear and strawberry salad Chopped meat sandwich Jam sandwich Floating Island Cocoa Menu 5 Fruit cup Broiled lamb chop Mashed potatoes Buttered peas Strawberry ice cream Sponge cake Milk or cocoa Ie: CHAPTER VII