Diet and Health
Meals at the dn. 'Yenges' fed twice - once at girl's house, then at boy's.
(i) at girl's house: 9 courses:- pirin orba, mant, baked apricots, baked figs, fried eggs or vegetables, sweet dish made from pekmez and flour, plain rice
pudding, stewed plums and zm accompanied by a dish of plain bulgur, and finally village baklava. Loaves of bread accompanying meal.
(ii) at boy's house, 6 courses - veg. soup, mant, baked figs, rice pudding, dish of vegs., fruit stewed in pekmez - again with loaves of bread. As soon as
bowls put on table, women tucked in and did not wait to chew food before putting more into their mouths. Courses flew by, and the 9 course meal was over in
about 12 mins. Do they usually eat with this hungry ferocity? - if so it explains the amount of indigestion we are asked to deal with.
See note 2 p. 103 for women's habit of putting food in pockets for children.
Babies constantly suckled - I notice that they take v. little fr. the breast at a time, but are given the breast v. frequently. Except when I myself have been
giving a young child medicine, I have never seen one given water to drink. Children seldom weaned until well over 2, but solid food given it while still breast
feeding - e.g. pieces of bread, bits of fruit, raisins, small nuts, baklava at wedding etc.. Weaned younger children seem to be given bread when hungry, and
otherwise no regular feeding during day. e.g. after yengeler had eaten in ahin's ev, at the finish of that dn, the small children were given whole loaves,
with rice pudding spread thickly on top, which they consumed as they played.
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