Baby Formula Recipe 1960

This recipe was passed from my grandma to my mother and passed to me and will be passed to my daughter when she has children.

Baby formula recipe 1960. New mothers would be sent home from the hospital with recipes for homemade formula using ingredients most. While the syrup is not approved for feeding babies today it s interesting to know how such a common ingredient was used to feed infants in the past. Recipe by triple bq. Baby formula is made in high tech labs and can t be reproduced right.

Put it in a bottle. Below is one from 1960. Widely available baby formula was not available until the 1950s. Need the exact measurements of ingridents used as well as preperation instructions.

Ideal milk another evaporated brand carried a warning on the label not suitable for feeding babies use carnation milk. Adjust bowel movement by more or less honey. Find a lactating mammal. Infant formula baby formula or just formula american english or baby milk infant milk or first milk british english is a manufactured food designed and marketed for feeding to babies and infants under 12 months of age usually prepared for bottle feeding or cup feeding from powder mixed with water or liquid with or without additional water.

They didn t know that cow s milk was bad for babies and besides most mothers nursed. Feed it to the baby. In those days carnation milk had a baby feeding guide on the back of the label with dilution ratios and total quantity to feed depending on the baby s age and weight. Baby formula has been used since the 1920s.

Still iron deficiency among formula fed infants was a common occurrence through 1980. Schuman writes in his article a concise history of infant formula this is the exact recipe that was widely used in the 1950s and 1960s for infants who were not breastfed please remember though that this homemade formula is not a long term solution since it lacks necessary vitamins. By the late 1960s less than 10 of infants were fed home prepared formula greatly improving the nutrition and health among the formula fed infant population. So what did everyone do for those 30 years in between.

The recipe for evaporated milk baby formula. The invention of baby formula revolutionized the way babies were fed and provided much needed nutrition for babies that didn t have access to breastmilk for whatever reason. It would have been used in 1940 1960 s. They made their own emergency baby formula.

The recipe calls. Use more or less lemon according to size of curds in spit up. The recipes for homemade baby formula almost always included karo syrup as an ingredient.