Ingredients
- three pints of milk daily until it has cut its first set of teeth
- 1 teacupful
- 1 quart
- 2 tablespoonfuls
- two kinds of food which contain every- thing we need to nourish the whole body
- one word repeated each time
- 8 three courses
Directions
Materials. — Tapioca, 1 teacupful ; milk, 1 quart ; sugar, 2 tablespoonfuls ; dripping, 1 oz.
Directiozis. — Place the tapioca in a pie-dish, mix the sugar thoroughly with the milk, and pour it over the tapioca. Shred the dripping into it. Put it into the oven, and stir every ten minutes, three times ; then bake for an hour longer.
As this pudding should cook slowly, we must make it first. It is quickly made, but while you are mixing the milk and sugar, and shredding the dripping, you shall learn a little about milk.
There are only two kinds of food which contain every- thing we need to nourish the whole body ; these are whole-meal bread (or porridge) and milk. If you look at the “Analysis of Food,” at the end of each lesson, you will often find one word repeated each time. That word is milk, for it contains all the nourishment neces- sary to make us strong and healthy.
1 8 THREE COURSES FOR THREEPENCE.
When a babe is very young, its tiny bones are like gristle, bending easily ; and they do not become quite hard until it is seven years old, or more. If a young child has plenty of milk, the minerals (lime especially) it contains will harden these soft bones, and make them strong, so that the child will stand and walk in due time.
A child with bow-legs and a weak back, has usually been fed too much on “fatteners” only, and has not been given enough milk. Every babe should take three pints of milk daily until it has cut its first set of teeth (that is, until it has twenty teeth, ten in each jaw) ; and all growing children should take as much milk as possible. If this were so, we should hear much less of hip-disease or consumption among young people. These terrible diseases make an easy prey of children who are not properly nourished ; but milk gives nourishment in its most easily digested forms. Look at a calf before it begins to graze. What limbs it has ! What power to knock you down ! Yet it never tasted anything but pure milk. Remember, then, to supply plenty of milk to those children with whom you have to do, if you would have them strong and hearty.