Okay, folks. Don’t feed your baby beer. Keep the wine for yourself and skip the coffee, too.
Here is a list of foods, published in a newspaper in 1916, that lets parents know what they should not be giving the baby.
Forbidden Foods
There are some foods that help and some that hinder the baby’s fight for life in summer months.
The foods that handicap the infant are:
Certain meats, such as corned beef, ham, pork, sausage, duck, goose, meat stews and dressings from roast meats.
All fried vegetables are dangerous for baby. So are green corn, cucumber, fried egg plant, fried onions and canned vegetables.
Any kind of hot bread is unfit for young children. Griddle cakes also are tabooed.
Bread or cake with dried fruits or sweet frostings also are bad for little tots.
Ice cream is too rich. It chills the stomach and paves the way for cholera infant.
Candy upsets baby’s digestion.
Pastry, pie or preserved fruits are also dangerous.
Coffee, tea, beer, cider, wine, and whisky [WTF?] must give way to cooled boiled water and properly modified milk.
Dry or “ready-to-eat” cereals also are bad for young children and babies in particular.
Not until baby is six years old should he have butter on his bread.
Source: The Day Book. Newspaper. July 19, 1916.
