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Preserved Breast-milk

Ensure cleanliness when handling and feeding milk.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Preserved Breast-milk

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Neutralize 1 quart of fresh human milk with sodium bicarbonate.

  2. Add 0.5 gram of 30% hydrogen peroxide solution to the milk.

  3. Warm the mixture to 131°F (55°C) to liberate nascent oxygen.

  4. Repeat the process every 24 hours to keep the milk fresh.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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