The Book of a Thousand Menus

A thousand menus for 1927 — sixty-seven weeks of breakfasts, lunches and dinners, reckoned to the calorie and the vitamin.

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Balanced Meatless Menus—Summer: Week Five

MONDAY

Breakfast

Blueberries with cream or milk

Whole wheat muffins

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Stewed tomatoes

Boiled onions

Whole wheat bread

Cole slaw with chopped green peppers, mayonnaise dressing

Cup custard

Dinner

Boiled brown rice with butter or brown (vegetable) gravy

Asparagus

String beans

Salad: Watercress, tomato, mayonnaise

Spanish cream

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Raspberries

Cornflakes with cream or milk

Sanka or cereal coffee

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Lettuce

Cottage cheese

Whole wheat bread

Berries

Dinner

Corn cut from the cob

Lima beans

Beet greens or spinach with hard boiled eggs

Salad: Romaine, cucumber and tomato, mayonnaise dressing

Spanish cream

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Sliced peaches with cream

Bran muffins

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Creamed tomato soup

Triscuit

Buttered carrots

Watercress and cucumber salad

Fresh fruit

Dinner

Eggs a la King on toast

Asparagus

Mashed turnips

Salad: Lettuce, sliced pineapple, mayonnaise dressing

Honeydew melon

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Cantaloupe

Blueberry muffins

Glass of milk or Kaffee Hag

Lunch

Baked potato

Carrots and peas

Lettuce hearts, French dressing

Berries

Dinner

Scrambled eggs with chives on rye toast

Beet greens

Butter beans

Salad: Shredded cabbage, chopped green pepper, strip of pimento (canned), mayonnaise dressing

Cantaloupe

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Stewed rhubarb

Corn and bran flakes, cream or milk

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Peach shortcake (biscuit crust)

Iced Kaffee Hag

Dinner

Potatoes mashed with minced onion

String beans

Cauliflower

Salad: Romaine, celery, cucumber, mayonnaise

Fruit gelatin with cream

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Muskmelon

Whole wheat raisin bread toast

Glass of milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Creamed asparagus soup

Mixed vegetable salad with hard boiled eggs, mayonnaise

Fresh fruit

Dinner

Baked potatoes

Mashed parsnips

Spinach

Salad: Watercress, radishes, mayonnaise dressing

Peach mousse

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Honeydew melon

Whole wheat waffles, maple syrup or honey Kaffee Hag or a glass of milk

Dinner

Omelet with mushrooms

New potatoes cooked with green peas, creamed or buttered Asparagus

Salad: Lettuce hearts, cucumber, tomato, mayonnaise dressing

Almond bisque

Café noir (a coffee substitute)

Supper

Blueberry muffins

Fruit salad, cream mayonnaise

Radishes

Olives

Iced Kaffee Hag

This chapter has been devoted to meatless menus. Many believe that if they omit meat and fish from the dietary that will insure health, but this is a mistake. Especially bad are the "mock" vegetarian roasts made of legumes, grain, oil and perhaps vegetables. They are very difficult to digest.

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