Note: This edition of 300 Healthful Dairy Dishes has been updated to include Metric equivalents.
Packed with 300 new menu ideas to bring extra nourishment to every meal.
The dairy has long provided the human family with many of its most valuable foods … just how valuable has been the subject of much speculation and conjecture until very recently. There was even a time when the personal stature and the world standing of nations was postulated on the per capita consumption of milk and other dairy foods. In the last few years all this speculation has given way to the laboratory scientist who confirms what went before, by telling us that milk is the nearly perfect food and that it and its products are really indispensable to full health and vigor. While milk contains all the vitamins as well as all the minerals for life and growth (some in small quantities), its chief value lies in Vitamin A, available calcium and phosphorus. To these, in recent years, has been added Vitamin D, usually by irradiation, so that the whole growth factor is in this one product.
Cream and butter are, of course, higher in fat and the vitamins carried by fat and lower in water and milk protein. They too, are indispensable in the human larder as every great national emergency proves. Children deprived of them, as well as of milk, for any length of time show the serious physical results all their adult life.
Cheese has been, for the most part the favorite of grownups and well it might be. Its piquant flavor as well as the wide and interesting variety of those produced has always been intriguing to the gourmet as well as to the tiller of the soil. Indeed so valuable has it always been considered that many countries have their own well-guarded special formulas for making it.
For the homemaker bent on using dairy foods as frequently and in as great quantity as possible, the only problem has been to secure an interesting variety in the day to day menu. This book is designed to allow her to plan for some dairy food in every course served, and every day if she chooses.
