BOILING MILK

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1938, Page 4

BOILING MILK

FOR BABY’S BOTTLE. When a baby has to be artificially fed, and is given a cows’ milk mixture, the mother may question in her own mind the advisability of boiling the milk for baby’s bottle. She may have been misled into thinking that boiled milk was more indigestible. Actually, the boiling of cows’ milk is desirable and necessary, for, apart from destroying disease germs, it renders the curd of the milk into softer particles. In fact, for delicate babies, it is to be simmered from three to fifteen minutes to ensure easier digestion. The only disadvantage is that the fresh element of this natural food is lost by the application of the great heat, but it can always be made good by giving baby orange or other fruit or vegetable juice and water. It should be given midway between feeding times, and baby can start having this fresh element at the age of one month. e

Even a naturally-fed baby will gain by this addition to his diet; the new flavour and other methods of drinking, whether by bottle, spoon, or glass, will be a further step towards weaning days, with. their complete change of methods.