NUTS AND OAT CAKE.
• Xuta-and almonds >arei more highly ..nutritious, weight" for weighVJthlw wheat or oate; tout it is not frtiia this point of view that' they are to He recommended' for children. So • far as direct' building properties are , concerned all hut* form extremely expensive food 1 in ,'tliis counby. When deprived of their ahella their average, co«t wisrat*mt • a shilling, a pound, or ten timeVlt&e pri«e of flour. of oatmeafi l Hbwerer N " children ' are extremely fond ..of nute, - .and. -can readily ibe taught to expend.., an' amount 0f,.-energy in grinding, them into a paste,|quite 'beyonji the., work they would, ordinarily deiy^ef,to masticrting dry, .toast,. .hand jbiscuit,.. ,or eve.n oat cake.^.. The named' forms an, .excellent ,:*u>Btitiut& for nut£, and we should use it far more .than .we do. in .-the., .feeding; lof our . children. It, i» very! disGult>to. convince parents,that.more satisfactory growth will, take, ' if. a»largcr pro.^tortipn of the.oatmeal used .as'food is given in thp form, of plain noat - cake,, than, if the meal ia used solely in the form,, of porridge, which flliM down uncliewed."-
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Thames Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 10245, 10 December 1910, Page 1 (Supplement)
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