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 Four

MONDAY

Breakfast

Red raspberries with cream

Toasted triscuit

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Combination vegetable salad, dressing to suit Blueberry pudding with lemon sauce Glass of milk

Dinner

Cabbage, with onions and green peppers boiled together, butter dressing

Mashed rutabaga

Green peas

Salad: Lettuce, tomato, cucumber, French dressing Prune whip

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Stewed rhubarb

Graham toast

Glass of milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Corn omelet

Watercress salad

Rye bread

Peach sherbet

Dinner

Spaghetti with mushrooms, served with grated cheese Boiled Spanish onion, butter sauce Salad: Lettuce, sliced pineapple, Maraschino cherries, mayonnaise dressing

Fruit and melon balls

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Honeydew melon

Bran flakes with cream

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Boiled new potatoes with butter and chopped parsley Peas

Salad: Lettuce hearts, strips of pimento, Thousand Island dressing

Dinner

Boiled brown rice with mushrooms, tomato sauce Buttered carrots

String beans

Salad: Cole slaw, with mayonnaise dressing Pineapple fluff

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Sliced peaches with cream

Bran muffins

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Poached eggs on whole wheat toast Romaine and tomato salad, French dressing Iced cocoa or cereal coffee

Dinner

Buttered beets

Corn on the cob

Mashed turnips

Salad: Endive or lettuce, Avocado, cucumber, peas, mayonnaise dressing

Cherry moss

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Huckleberries

Bran and cornflakes with cream or milk

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Creamed asparagus soup

Whole wheat bread

Stewed tomatoes and onions

Radishes

Olives

Berries

Dinner

Omelet with mushrooms

Creamed oyster plant

Peas

Salad: Cooked celery root, lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise

Kaffee Hag jelly with cream

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Blackberries

Shredded wheat biscuit, milk or cream

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Spinach with hard boiled eggs

Whole wheat bread

Radishes

Melon

Dinner

Green corn custard

Boiled Spanish onions with butter sauce

Green peas

Salad: Combination vegetable, mayonnaise dressing

Cantaloupe

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Red raspberries with cream

Whole wheat waffles, maple syrup

Kaffee Hag or Sanka

Dinner

Baked green peppers stuffed with brown rice, chopped onion, mushrooms, tomato sauce

Peas

Cauliflower, butter sauce

Salad: Lettuce hearts, mayonnaise dressing Ice cream

Supper

Tomato bisque

Sandwich: Rye bread, lettuce leaves, pimento cream cheese

Peach sherbet

No matter how good the foods are and how well they are combined, if they are not well masticated and insalivated trouble may ensue. One of the most important dietetic rules is: Eat slowly and masticate well.

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