TAKING COO LIVER OIL.

Putaruru Press, Volume V, Issue 176, 17 March 1927, Page 2

TAKING COO LIVER OIL.

Although it is now well-known that cod liver oil is a most beneficial food and protection during our winters, there is still the great difficulty of getting it swallowed. The usual methods of adding it to otherwise sweet and pleasant foods such as milk and malt seems to emphasise its strong fishy flavour. One way of taking it is to make a point of the flavour and enjoy it, serving it on hot toast with pepper and salt, or, better still, on hot crumpets, which will readily absorb a much larger quantity of the oil. Children often have a fondness for savouries, so the oil toast, with a few flaked pieces of sardine on the top, could be given for supper occasionally in place of the usual cocoa and bread and butter. Or the reverse method can be followed and a little orange juice squeezed into a cup, then the cod liver oil and more orange juice, and the whole swallowed at once. In this way it is entirely flavourless, and the rest of the orange eaten afterwards removes any suggestion of fish flavour from the mouth and from the imagination.