WHEN CHILDREN WILL NOT EAT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16875, 28 October 1922, Page 15

WHEN CHILDREN WILL NOT EAT.

Occasionally children show a marked aversion to iood. It is wrong to force them to cat when they have no wish to do so, hut by appealing to a child’s interest and serving old dishes in a newway it is generally possible to persuade ♦He little one to take sufficient nourishment. espocialy ii highly conceutiated food is given. nii\ snepherd’s pies, baked in small hreproof dishes, will probably he received with great enthusiasm, when a lielj ing from a big pic woukl Vie ieiused by the child. Little jellies made of meat extract, with the addition of a few cold peas or slices of runner beans set in them. r mi n star of cold carrot at the top as a garnishing, will he very nutritious and tempt the jaded appetite. A “TEMPTING” PUDDING. Instead of ordinary custard, floating bland pudding is a good substitute. The custard is mode in the ordinary way. but only the yolks of the eggs are u-'ocl. The* whites are whipped up stiffly with a little caster sugar, and mv::II heaps of sugar are carefully placed on the custard. Rice pudding becomes attractive wla n it is cooked a long time, so that ; ‘1 the milk and egg is absorbed in the rice lhen it is packed into little 1 ; on Id *■, which arc' turned out when they arc' cold, and a spoonful of curie- nt jelly is placed on the. top of each. Served with milk nr cream these little puddings will hardly he recognised by the small people as ordinary rice pudding. Cornflour, tapicoa, or baked ci. lari can be served in the same way. Baked apples can also be made very a-tractive. The apples should be peeled first and then placed in separate fir:-r>rof>f dishes. A stoned date can be stuffed in the middle of each apple, and the apple then sprinkled with sugar, or the fruit ran lie conked with sugar, and when served the hole in the middle can be Idled with red jelly.