Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

by Marion Harland

Farina. ✠

• 1 cup boiling water.
• 1 cup fresh milk.
• 1 large tablespoonful Hecker’s Farina, wet up with cold water.
• 2 teaspoonfuls white sugar.
• A pinch of salt.

Stir the farina into the boiling water (slightly salted) in the farina kettle (i. e., one boiler set within another, the latter filled with hot water). Boil fifteen minutes, stirring constantly until it is well-thickened. Then add the milk, stirring it in gradually, and boil fifteen minutes longer. Sweeten, and give to the child so soon as it is cool enough.

You may make enough in the morning to last all day; warming it up with a little hot milk as you want it. Keep in a cold place. Some of the finest children I have ever seen were reared upon this diet. Do not get it too sweet, and cook it well. Be sure the farina is sweet and dry.