Be careful to drink from a clean cup. Sore throats
and even consumption (tuberculosis) may result, if
more than one person drink from one cup or dipper.
Each pupil should have his own cup. Paper cups cost
very little. The luncheon club at the Pleasant Valley
LUNCHEON AT SCHOOL
25
School has decided to use them. Do not use public
drinking cups. (Fig. ii.)
After a sad time, when diphtheria raged among the
pupils of a school in another section, the Woman's Club
of that town gave
to the school a
pump like that in
the picture (Fig.
12). Do you see
that the water is
bubbling up and
that the girl is
drinking without a
cup ?
Water may con-
tain lime and iron
that make it
"hard." If there
is a large amount
of the lime, it is
best to boil the
water for drinking.
If the inside of
the teakettle has a
coating of lime, then you are using the kind of hard
water that is improved by boiling. Sometimes to make
water soft it is distilled. This is done by catching and
cooling the steam. A distilling apparatus is made for
home use.
Fig. 12. — At the Pleasant Valley School a drinking
fountain is attached to the pump. The water is
bubbling up and the girl is drinking without a cup.
26 FOOD AND HEALTH
EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS
1. Make a sketch of your water supply at home with its sur-
roundings.
2. Make some plan for improving the water supply.
3. In what ways does water become impure ?
4. Why is it important to use individual cups ?
5. How much lemonade or other beverage would you prepare
for fifty people ? Estimate the cost.
6. What fruits growing in your locality, including wild berries,
can be used for making beverages ?
7. Explain why fruit juice is wholesome.
Lesson 3
cocoa for the school luncheon
CocoA is easy to prepare for the school luncheon on the cold
days of winter. What is the value of this and of other hot bever-
ages ; and what are some of the important things to think about
in cooking them ?
Milk or cream, and sugar give hot drinks some value
as food. Grown people use coffee and tea because there
is a substance in both of them, besides the flavor, that
they think has a pleasant effect upon their nerves,
although in the end most people would be better without
either. Very agreeable beverages are made from
roasted grain, and several of these can be bought. Of
course, girls and boys do not take either tea or coffee ;
but there is no reason why they should not have a cup
of cocoa for breakfast, and on cool days make it for the
school luncheon.
LUNCHEON AT SCHOOL 27
What is cocoa ? Cocoa and chocolate are manufac-
tured from a seed somewhat like a bean, that grows in
hot countries. The bean is roasted and ground, and
from it chocolate is made. Cocoa is chocolate with
the fat taken out. If you have ever seen cocoa butter.
Courtesy of Miss Myra Hunt.
Fig. 13. — A well-arranged school kitchen.
you know how this fat looks. Which will have the more
food value, cocoa or chocolate .?
How to cook. Let us now plan to make cocoa at
school.
Cooking should be as dainty and pretty work as
painting or sewing. We can make it so if we arrange
neatly on the table everything to work with and do not
spill food materials.
The illustration (Fig. 15) shows some convenient
measures. See how the cups are divided. Of course,
28
FOOD AND HEALTH
Courtesy of the Forecast Magazine,
Fig. 14. — A neat working table and worker. Notice the fireless cooker.
United States Departmeru of Commerce., Circular of the Bureau of Standards, No. 66.
Fig. 15. — Cups and spoons like these are "Convenient household measures.
LUNCHEON AT SCHOOL
29
Fig. 16. — The spoonfuls in measuring should be level.
everyday spoons will do. The spoonfuls in measuring
should be level. (See Fig. 16.) ✪ Cocoa
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Be careful to drink from a clean cup. Sore throats
and even consumption (tuberculosis) may result, if
more than one person drink from one cup or dipper.
Each pupil should have his own cup. Paper cups cost
very little. The luncheon club at the Pleasant Valley
LUNCHEON AT SCHOOL
25
School has decided to use them. Do not use public
drinking cups. (Fig. ii.)
After a sad time, when diphtheria raged among the
pupils of a school in another section, the Woman's Club
of that town gave
to the school a
pump like that in
the picture (Fig.
12). Do you see
that the water is
bubbling up and
that the girl is
drinking without a
cup ?
Water may con-
tain lime and iron
that make it
"hard." If there
is a large amount
of the lime, it is
best to boil the
water for drinking.
If the inside of
the teakettle has a
coating of lime, then you are using the kind of hard
water that is improved by boiling. Sometimes to make
water soft it is distilled. This is done by catching and
cooling the steam. A distilling apparatus is made for
home use.
Fig. 12. — At the Pleasant Valley School a drinking
fountain is attached to the pump. The water is
bubbling up and the girl is drinking without a cup.
26 FOOD AND HEALTH
EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS
1. Make a sketch of your water supply at home with its sur-
roundings.
2. Make some plan for improving the water supply.
3. In what ways does water become impure ?
4. Why is it important to use individual cups ?
5. How much lemonade or other beverage would you prepare
for fifty people ? Estimate the cost.
6. What fruits growing in your locality, including wild berries,
can be used for making beverages ?
7. Explain why fruit juice is wholesome.
Lesson 3
cocoa for the school luncheon
CocoA is easy to prepare for the school luncheon on the cold
days of winter. What is the value of this and of other hot bever-
ages ; and what are some of the important things to think about
in cooking them ?
Milk or cream, and sugar give hot drinks some value
as food. Grown people use coffee and tea because there
is a substance in both of them, besides the flavor, that
they think has a pleasant effect upon their nerves,
although in the end most people would be better without
either. Very agreeable beverages are made from
roasted grain, and several of these can be bought. Of
course, girls and boys do not take either tea or coffee ;
but there is no reason why they should not have a cup
of cocoa for breakfast, and on cool days make it for the
school luncheon.
LUNCHEON AT SCHOOL 27
What is cocoa ? Cocoa and chocolate are manufac-
tured from a seed somewhat like a bean, that grows in
hot countries. The bean is roasted and ground, and
from it chocolate is made. Cocoa is chocolate with
the fat taken out. If you have ever seen cocoa butter.
Courtesy of Miss Myra Hunt.
Fig. 13. — A well-arranged school kitchen.
you know how this fat looks. Which will have the more
food value, cocoa or chocolate .?
How to cook. Let us now plan to make cocoa at
school.
Cooking should be as dainty and pretty work as
painting or sewing. We can make it so if we arrange
neatly on the table everything to work with and do not
spill food materials.
The illustration (Fig. 15) shows some convenient
measures. See how the cups are divided. Of course,
28
FOOD AND HEALTH
Courtesy of the Forecast Magazine,
Fig. 14. — A neat working table and worker. Notice the fireless cooker.
United States Departmeru of Commerce., Circular of the Bureau of Standards, No. 66.
Fig. 15. — Cups and spoons like these are "Convenient household measures.
LUNCHEON AT SCHOOL
29
Fig. 16. — The spoonfuls in measuring should be level.
everyday spoons will do. The spoonfuls in measuring
should be level. (See Fig. 16.)