ato, small portion
of strained spinach or carrots; orange gelatin or
cornstarch pudding.

6 P.M.--Bottle.

From 15 months to 2-1/2 years:

8 A.M.--Stewed fruit or orange juice; cereal, crisp
bacon, alternated with soft-cooked or poached egg;
bread and butter or toast, milk or weak cocoa.

12 or 1 P.M.--Meat or vegetable soup thickened with cereal;
lamb chop, scraped beef or chicken or beef juice; baked
or mashed potato; strained spinach; carrots; turnips or
celery; gelatin, custard, or cornstarch pudding.

3 P.M.--Crackers and milk.

6 or 7 P.M.--Bread and milk or cereal; baked apple or apple
sauce.

From 3 to 6 years:

8 A.M.--Stewed fruit or orange; cereal; bacon or egg
(soft-cooked or poached); bread and butter; milk or
cocoa.

12 or 1 P.M.--Soup; lamb chop, scraped beef, chicken, or roast
meats; potato; all vegetables; celery, lettuce; light
desserts: custards, gelatin, lady fingers.

3 P.M.--Milk; fruit and crackers.

6 P.M.--Milk or cocoa; stewed fruit; bread and butter;
cereals; eggs.

VEGETABLE SOUP

1/4 lb. beef, lamb or chicken
1 potato
1 carrot
2 stalks celery
1 tablespoonful pearl barley
2 tablespoonfuls rice
2 qts. water
1 pinch salt

Finely divide the vegetables. Add the vegetables, barley and rice to 2
qts. of water. Boil down to 1 qt., cooking 3 hours. Add pinch of salt.
Pass through fine sieve.

Morse and Talbot advise baked potato, plain boiled macaroni, rice and
wheat germ, bread and butter, baked custard, plain blanc-mange, and
plain boiled tapioca to be given when the child is 1-1/2 years old.
When the child is nearly two years old they add meat in the most
digestible forms, such as the white meat of chicken, lamb or mutton
chops, and scraped beef.

The following dietary is suggested for a child two years old:[78]

"Whole milk, butter, mutton broth, chicken broth, beef juice,
soft-cooked eggs, dropped eggs, white meat of chicken, lamb or mutton
chops, scraped beef, French bread, stale bread, toasted bread, whole
wheat bread, milk toast, zwieback, plain white crackers, plain
Educator crackers, barley, jelly, oatmeal, cream of wheat, wheat germ,
Ralston's Farina, rice, baked potato, plain boiled m