Ok, I have to tell you that this chapter really made me laugh. We have come such a long way in feeding infants. It’s a wonder our parents or grandparents ever survived isn’t it? Or then again, maybe we are the crazy ones?
Everyone has their own opinions……
As for the older infant….I need to make some homemade tomato juice….:) You’ll see why in a minute.
According to The New Settlement Cookbook, 1954:
Infant Feeding
“When the bottle-fed newborn baby leaves the hospital nursery, the hospital usually sends along enough bottle feedings for 24 hours. the bottle feeding usually is a combination of plain milk, water and sugar, mixed in porportions to resemble breast milk. It is made with whole milk or evaporated milk in some such mixture as the following:
8 oz whole milk
10 oz water
2 tablespoons corn syrup
This mixture is brought to a boil. Cooled and refridgerated.”
Aren’t you glad you don’t have to make your own formula? Whew….
And this is a sample menu of what you are to feed an older baby who has already been introduced to solids…. it says 9 to 16 months.
7 to 8 am
2 to 4 rounded tablespoons of cooed or pre-cooked cereal, with 2 or 3 ounces of boiled milk over it.
Zwieback or whole wheat toast, thinly buttered.
9 am
2 ounces or orange juice diluted with a little water, or twice the amount of homemade tomato juice.
12 to 1 pm
1. 1 egg or 1 rounded tablespoon of scraped beef or finely diced cooked beef or lamb or liver or minced chicken or sieved meats.
2. 3 to 4 tablespoons of seived vegetables and 2 Tablespoons of baked potato.
3. 2 to3 tablespoons of renet or custard, cornstarch or tapioca pudding with added milk or seived ripe banana with added milk.
4. Milk, 1/2 cup.
3 pm
Orange juice or tomato juice as at 9 am
5 to 6 pm
Same as breakfast plus the addition of prune or apricot pulp, baked applesauce or baked apple. Filling from a pie may replace the sieved fruit.
Some food for thought today? What are you feeding your babies?
I am not sure my 1 year old would drink homemade tomato juice…..(boiled tomatoes in water….strain out the tomatoes).
And….
I think I have been up too much too late at night because the baby bullet calls my name at 2 am. It never occurs to me that I could currently just use my stick blender to do the same thing with blending baby food…but that baby bullet…it taunts me every time.
I have a very head strong child who is actually doing the whole job of figuring these things out for me. She doesn’t want “baby” food, she wants our food. Right now she simply gets to eat whatever is on our plate that is appropriate for her age may it be a peach, some soup or a crust of bread to teeth on. Thankfully she still mostly breastfeeds so I don’t have to worry about nutritional values and such quite yet.
I’m so going to have her taste tomato juice… I was partial to carrot juice myself as a baby.
As much as I love vintage style I am so glad to be living today! I love to look at old cookbooks too. And some of the recipes aren’t bad but I draw the line at canned veggies!When my baby was smaller I would just steam some veggies and use my masher. I was tempted to buy a bullet but I’m glad I didn’t although they are cool looking.
My babies aren’t really babies anymore, but I loved making homemade baby food. I’m pretty distrustful of those foul-smelling jarred foods. I started them all on pureed broccoli and beets that I made in my blender and froze. Tomato juice would be so good for a baby. I should have thought of it myself.
Wow, that baby ‘formula’ is pretty interesting! 🙂 My 15 mth old has pretty much eaten whatever we are eating since he is our 3rd child and time is a precious comodidity in our house. When he first started solids at 6 mths or so, I made baby food with my food processor and put it in ice cube trays, froze it, popped out the cubes and put them in large ziplocs with labels (squash, green beans, etc). I’m glad to be out of that phase, though, it was much harder than just cutting up his food and putting it on his tray. 🙂
I have 10 month old twins and making about 95% of their food while still breast feeding (heavens help me). Sometimes it’s a little bit too much for me but I’m glad I’m doing it. We have an older daughter and fed her mostly organic food. When these boys came along we wanted to start them off eating organic too, but it would have gotten really expensive to buy double the food, so I decided to make it. Now I wish I did that for my daughter too.
As for the tomato & orange juice for infants…I was thinking that would hurt their little tummies! ( and their little butts too!)
P.S. I’m a new follower of this blog & I really like it 🙂 I especially like your “art of homemaking” posts