Food and health

not to wait until morning to cook it. In winter, when the fire is kept in overnight, the first cooking can be done at supper time, and the boiler left standing on the range or stove, at the back. In summer, the cereal Courtesy of Ohio Stau UniversUy. ' From Homematers' Reading Courses, Vol. I, No. ». Fig. 74. — The breakfast cereal may be cooked overnight in a fireless cooker. This cooker is fitted with valves which permit the escape of steam, and prevent water from condensing in the cooker. can be thoroughly cooked the day before, and reheated at breakfast time. There are still other ways. Have you ever heard of the fireless cooker and the Atkinson cooker ? We shall study these in another lesson. 1. Weigh a cup of flaked cereal and a cup of granular. 2. Make a list of the flaked and granular cereals, that you know about, with the amount of water for each one. 3. Does anything in your study of physiology explain why you should eat the cooked cereal slowly ? 4. How much corn meal shall you need to make mush for a family of six ? Of eight ? 5. Weigh the contents of a box of ready-to-eat cereal. Weigh the same measure of oatmeal ; of corn meal ; of rice. 6. Which is the least expensive ? Can you tell why i 7. MoUie Stark used one of the recipes in this lesson with a foamy sauce for dessert at dinner (Lesson 13). Which one did she select i Lesson 19 the value of eggs as a food What is there for you to learn about selling eggs and about using them at home ? It may be that you help your mother in raising poultry, and sell the eggs ; and, of course, you have enough for home use, anyway. Eggs for market. There are many pamphlets printed about poultry and eggs for profit. You may have read about the Poultry Clubs in someof our states, and perhaps you are a member. Some of these pamphlets are kept on the book shelves at the Pleasant Valley School, and the pupils try at home some of the plans suggested. The important things for poultry are a clean house, clean drinking water, good food, litter to scratch in for the winter, a " run '* for good weather and for summer, fresh air, and dry feet. In a tightly shut henhouse we cannot have healthy hens that will lay. They need fresh air, but, as their bodies are about eight degrees hotter than ours, they do not need to be kept warm. The food that hens require is very much like our own ; grain, some meat food, green stuff, plus something to make the eggshells hard. If you want the eggs to Cottrtesy of Miss Laura B. Whiitemore. Fig. 75. — Miss Field and her flock of White Wyandottes. have the flavor that customers call ** perfectly delicious,'' you must be careful to give them no table scraps that have a strong flavor. Miss Field, the young woman in Pleasant Valley who sells eggs, never gives table scraps to her laying hens. She feeds the scraps to the cockerels that will be sold for broilers. Selling fresh eggs. Miss Field is very careful to send only fresh eggs to market. Her commission mer- CouTtesy of Miss Laura B. WhUtemore. Fig. 76. — Beauty Bright. The openings in the houses are closed by shutters covered with heavy cotton cloth. Cotartesy of Miss Laura B. WhUtemore. Fig. 77. — Jack, one of Miss Field's cocks, with his well-ventilated house at the back. chant wrote her that he never tested her eggs because he could depend upon them. The Woman^s Club asked Miss Field to give a talk about her poultry raising because they knew that she was practical, and that she made it pay. She warned them about taking batches of eggs of all ages to the store, and reminded them that when we buy eggs we do not