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 Two

MONDAY

Breakfast

Sliced orange and banana

Shredded wheat with cream or milk Postum, cereal coffee or Kaffee Hag Lunch

Creamed tomato soup

Baked potato with butter

Celery

Olives

Apple sauce

Dinner

Riced chestnuts

Carrots

Peas

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

Orange jelly with cream

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit

Buckwheat cakes with maple syrup Cereal coffee or Kaffee Hag

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Graham bread

Salad: Watercress with cream cheese nut balls Pear or apple

Dinner

Cheese omelet

Boiled onions, buttered

Green peas

Salad: Tomato stuffed with chopped celery, green pepper and shredded cabbage, mayonnaise dressing tedrada

Baked apple

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Stewed Silver prunes

Corn muffins

Cereal coffee or Postum

Lunch

Creamed celery soup

Graham bread

Green peas

Celery

Olives

Apple or pear

Dinner

Corn custard

Cauliflower

Mashed rutabaga

Salad: Cole slaw with pimento (canned), ripe olives, mayonnaise dressing

Spanish cream

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Graham muffins

Eggs, boiled

Milk, Postum or cereal coffee

Lunch

Baked beans (no pork) served with tomato sauce

Baked apple

Dinner

Chestnut cutlet with mushrooms

Boiled cabbage

String beans

Salad: Sliced tomato, celery and lettuce, mayonnaise dressing

Peach sherbet

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Apples stewed with prunes

Whole wheat toast

Milk, cereal coffee or Sanka

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Whole wheat bread

Buttered boiled onions

Celery

Sliced pineapple

Dinner

Sweet potatoes and prunes, New York style

Brussels sprouts

Peas

Salad: Combination fruit on lettuce, cream mayonnaise dressing

Cup custard

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Whole wheat muffins

Cereal coffee or Kaffee Hag

Lunch

Split pea soup

Rye bread, watercress and mayonnaise sandwich

Baked apple

Dinner

Baked potatoes

Stewed tomatoes

Cauliflower

Salad: French endive, green pepper strips and grated raw carrots. Dress to suit (no vinegar)

Prune whip

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Raisins

Rice waffles with strained honey or maple syrup

Sanka or Postum

Dinner

Brussels sprouts in noodle nests

String beans

Baked sweet potato

Cranberry sauce

Salad: Endive, celery and olives

Almond bisque

Supper

Cheese omelet with currant jelly

Celery

Olives

Ice cream

Kaffee Hag

Dried peas are another favorite legume. Prepare them the same as navy beans and make the combination the same.

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