It is also a very valuable food for older children, though, naturally, it is not "strong" enough and needs to be combined with bread, puddings, meat, and fat.
Soups and Broths.

Soups, broths, and beef teas are water in which meats, bones, and other scraps have been boiled.

They are about ninety-eight per cent water, and contain nothing of the meat or bones except some of their flavor, and a little gelatin.

They have little or no nutritive or fuel value, and are really Paper foods, useful solely as stimulants to appetite and digestion, enabling us to swallow with relish large pieces of bread or crackers, or the potatoes, rice, pea-meal, cheese, or other real foods with which they are thickened.

Their food value has been greatly exaggerated, and many an unfortunate invalid has literally starved on them.