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—Winter: Week Five

MONDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots (no sugar)

Waffles with butter

Cereal coffee or Postum

Lunch

Lentil soup

Salsify (vegetable oyster plant)

Mashed turnips

Celery

Buttermilk or Postum

Dinner

Baked sweet potatoes

String beans

Carrots

Salad: Lettuce hearts and pimento strips, melted butter dressing

Cup custard

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Sliced bananas and oranges

Bran and cornflakes with cream

Postum or Sanka

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Baked potato

Salad: Lettuce, sliced pineapple and cheese ball

Dinner

Baked apple

Cheese omelet

Mashed rutabaga Boiled buttered beets Cranberry jelly

Celery

Olives

Kaffee Hag jelly, with cream

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit or figs

Coddled eggs

Bran muffins

Postum

Lunch

Creamed asparagus soup

Baked sweet potato

Cranberry sauce

Celery

Kaffee Hag

Dinner

Stuffed baked potato sprinkled with grated American cheese and paprika

Peas

Boiled Spanish onions, butter sauce

Salad: Apple and peanuts served on lettuce leaves, mayonnaise dressing

Apple delight

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Stewed prunes

Corn muffins

Postum or Kaffee Hag

Lunch

Green pea soup

Salad: Lettuce, sliced pineapple, and nut meats, mayonnaise dressing

Graham bread

Dinner

Omelet with mushrooms

Triscuits

Cranberry jelly Golden bantam corn (canned)

Salad: French endive, sliced tomato and olives (no dressing)

Coffee jelly, whipped cream

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Sliced oranges

Whole wheat griddle cakes, with maple syrup or honey Postum or milk

Lunch

Melted American cheese on rye toast Waldorf salad on lettuce leaves

Kaffee Hag

Dinner

Poached eggs in nests (surrounded with noodles) Boiled white onions

Rutabaga

Salad: Combination vegetable, mayonnaise dressing Baked apple

SATURDAY

Breakfast

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Grapefruit

Whole wheat griddle cakes, maple syrup or honey Postum or Sanka

Lunch

Corn bread

Green peas

Cranberry jelly

Celery

Postum

Dinner

Cheese omelet

Cauliflower

String beans

Salad: French endive, sliced tomatoes, olives Pineapple delight

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Sliced oranges

Spiced raisin coffee cake

Kaffee Hag or Postum

Dinner

Jelly omelet

Potato fluff with minced onion and mushrooms Cauliflower

String beans

Salad: French endive, celery, and peas, mayonnaise dressing

Ice cream

Cereal coffee

Supper

Creamed tomato soup

Toasted triscuits

Waldorf salad with nut meats, mayonnaise dressing Prune whip

Many are fond of peanut butter. They may use it in place of dairy butter. It is a very nourishing food but a little more difficult to digest than the dairy butter.

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