Disguising Milk Puddings for the Nursery

Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 7295, 4 August 1930, Page 11

Disguising Milk Puddings for the Nursery

Most children take a sudden dislike to milk puddings now and again. Perhaps the menu has become monotonous, and the pudding, even after it has been discreetly kept from the table for a few days, will still be refused. Children can be very artful over the matter of food, and the difficulty can only be overcome by the mother or nurse being artful, too. Milk puddings can be disguised in a number of ways, and one of the rice variety will become a perfectly fascinating dish when liberally covered with many-hued "hundreds and thousands.” Stoneless raisins are jolly things to find in a milk pudding. A "bird's nest,” consisting of a cooked apple scooped out and filled with the milky mixture, is another mealtime adventure. Instead of sweetening the pudding with sugar, let the child help himself to a spoonful of treacle, with which he can make lovely patterns as it runs from the spoon. Another method of getting the child to take the required quantity of milk is to make a milk jelly. An ordinary

packet jelly can be used, with hot jnilk added instead of water. The child is always an individualist, so the jelly should if possible be made in tiny sepa--1 rate moulds. Nearly all children are apt to swullow milk puddings without any attempt at mastication. To prevent this, sprinkle broken pieces of rusk or ovendried breadcrumbs over each portion. The child will then be obliged to chew, thus supplying the necessary saliva.