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Some Kitchen Kinks: Baby

When the Baby is About a Month Old, barley water should be used instead of plain water. Put two tablespoonfuls of pearl barley in four cupfuls of cold water; boil an hour or more-down to two cupfuls; strain through a close cloth; add a pinch of salt and sweeten to breast-milk taste.

Add this to a cupful of "scalded" cow's milk treated as before described and begin feeding this strength.

Gradually use more milk and less barley water, until at about six months of age the child is getting two thirds milk and one third barley water.

Next to healthy breast milk, this will make as good food as the infant can get during teething and weaning.

Then comes the pure milk-always "scalded "-bread and milk, baked potato and milk, oatmeal porridgewhich can't be boiled too long, never less than two hours - and always eaten with milk, and the milk always "scalded," not boiled.