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 One

MONDAY

Breakfast

Stewed prunes

Whole wheat toast

Coddled eggs

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Baked potato

Salad: Lettuce and celery with cream cheese ball

Stewed apricots

Dinner

Chestnut cutlet

Boiled onions

Green peas

Whole wheat bread

Baked apple with cream

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit

Boiled brown rice with milk or cream

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Split pea soup

Rye bread

Salad: Combination salad with hard boiled egg, mayonnaise

Buttermilk

Dinner

Baked spaghetti and cheese

Cauliflower

Carrots

Salad: Endive, grated carrot, green pepper, mayonnaise dressing

Orange jelly

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Sliced oranges

Whole wheat griddle cakes (greaseless), maple syrup

Cereal coffee or Kaffee Hag

Lunch

Tomato bisque

Rye bread

Plain omelet

Watercress or endive

Buttermilk

Dinner

Nut meats

Mashed parsnips

Boiled cabbage

Fruit salad on French endive with whipped cream dressing

Cup custard

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit

Whole wheat muffins

Eggs, boiled

Glass of milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Potato cream soup with noodles

Salad: Combination vegetable, mayonnaise dressing

Whole wheat or graham crackers

Buttermilk or Kaffee Hag

Dinner

Baked potato

Stewed tomatoes

String beans

Salad: Endive, green pepper, and celery, mayonnaise dressing

Prune whip

Kaffee Hag

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Apple sauce

Rye bread toasted

Milk, cereal coffee or Kaffee Hag

Lunch

Melted American cheese on toast

Salad: Lettuce and sliced tomato, mayonnaise dressing

Stewed apricots

Sanka or Postum

Dinner

Spinach served with poached eggs

Brussels sprouts, buttered

Baked potato

Salad: Lettuce and string beans with Thousand Island dressing

Lemon jello with or without cream

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Stewed prunes

Cream of wheat with milk or cream

Postum or Kaffee Hag

Lunch

Lentil soup

Carrots and peas

Graham bread

Baked apple

Dinner

Nut meats

Baked green peppers stuffed with brown rice and cheese, tomato sauce

Boiled cabbage

Salad: Celery, lettuce, pimento strips, mayonnaise dressing

Fruit gelatin with cream

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Whole wheat waffles, maple syrup

Sanka, Postum, or Kaffee Hag

Dinner

Eggs a la King with mushrooms

Baked potato

Brussels sprouts

Salad: Lettuce, celery, apple and olives, mayonnaise dressing

Pumpkin custard

Supper

Toasted rye or whole wheat sandwich with filling of lettuce and pimento cheese

Olives

Celery

Sliced oranges

Cereal coffee

Navy beans are very nourishing but somewhat difficult to digest. Those who can digest them may soak them and boil or bake them and use them as the main part of their meal. With them take only some cooked succulent vegetables and a raw vegetable salad.

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