SUMMER FOODS FOR CHILDREN.
IN a recent number we give the Philadelphia Board of Health rules for the care of infants in hot weather. The board also sends out, with the stamp of its approval, the following recipes for special forms of diet for little children:— 1. Boiled Flour or Flour Ball.—Take one quart of good flour; tie it up in a pudding bag so tightly as to make a firm, solid mass; put it into a pot of boiling water early in the morning and boil until bedtime. Then take it out and let it dry. In the morning, peel off from the surface and throw away the thin rind of dough, and, with a nutmeg grater, grate down the hard, dry mass into a powder. Of this, from one to three teaspoonfuls may be used by first rubbing it into a paste with a little milk, then adding to it about a pint of milk, and finally by bringing the whole to just the boiling point. It must be given through a nursing bottle. 2. Boiled Bran Meal or Unbolted Flour.—An excellent food for children who are costive may be made by using bran meal or unbolted flour, instead of the white flour, preparing it as above directed. 3. Rice Water, Barley Water, etc.—Wash four tablespoonfuls of rice; put it into two quarts of water, with a little salt, and boil down to one quart, and then add sugar and a little nutmeg. This makes a pleasant drink. A pint or half pint of milk added to the rice water before it is taken from the fire gives a nourishing food suitable for cases of diarrhea. Barley, sago, tapioca, or cracked corn may be prepared in the same way.—Christian Advocate.