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 Menus with Meat—Summer: Week Five

MONDAY

Breakfast

Berries with bran flakes and cream Coddled eggs

Whole wheat muffins with butter

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Oxtail soup with barley (home made) Ry-Krisp

Baked green peppers stuffed with shredded cabbage, minced onion, grated carrots and cheese, tomato sauce Quarter cucumbers lengthwise, serve plain with a slight sprinkling of salt

Fresh fruit

Dinner

Lamb croquettes, baked Serve in a nest of green peas and carrots

Mint jelly

Baked potatoes

Peach mousse

Salad: Lettuce and sliced tomatoes, mayonnaise dressing TUESDAY

Breakfast

Cream of wheat served with crushed strawberries Bran biscuits

Crisp bacon

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Red raspberry shortcake with or without cream Iced Kaffee Hag

Dinner

Broiled beef tenderloin, dress with butter, season and garnish with watercress

Boiled new potatoes Spinach Summer squash

Salad: Combination vegetable, Thousand Island dressing Honeydew melon

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Puffed wheat or rice with blueberries and cream Whole wheat toast

Cereal coffee or Kaffee Hag

Lunch

Iced tomato bouillon

Triscuit

Corn on the cob

Fruit salad served on shredded lettuce, creamed mayonnaise dressing

Fresh fruit

Dinner

Boiled chicken, garnished with watercress Boiled new potatoes Asparagus String beans

Salad: Sliced cucumbers and tomatoes, Thousand Island dressing

Coffee jelly with cream

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Casaba melon or muskmelon

Rice muffins

Cereal coffee or glass of milk

Lunch

Beef bouillon

Toasted triscuit

Scrambled eggs with chives

Boiled Spanish onion with butter and seasoning Cucumbers quartered lengthwise, French dressing or plain Berries

Dinner

Broiled lamb chops

Small new potatoes, green peas and diced carrots, cooked together, creamed or dressed with butter and chopped parsley

Salad: Combination vegetable, dress to suit Spanish cream

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Justiesta

Grapes and plums

Whole wheat popovers with butter

Soft boiled eggs

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Clam chowder

Toasted Ry-Krisp

Corn on the cob

Salad: Romaine and sliced tomatoes, dress to suit Fresh fruit

Dinner

Boiled halibut, egg sauce

Baked potatoes

Summer squash

Cauliflower

Salad: Sliced tomatoes and endive, oil and lemon juice dressing

Lemon gelatin served with crushed pineapple SATURDAY

Breakfast

Muskmelon

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

Bouillon

Triscuit

Scrambled eggs with chopped chives Boiled diced kohlrabi, butter dressing Radishes

Stewed rhubarb

Dinner

Boiled ham steak

Baked potatoes

Boiled new cabbage (plain)

String beans

Salad: Lettuce hearts, mayonnaise dressing Berries with or without cream

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Berries with cream

Whole wheat toast

Crisp bacon and poached eggs

Cereal coffee, Postum or Kaffee Hag Dinner

Broiled chicken garnished with watercress Mashed potatoes

Asparagus Corn on the cob

Salad: Lettuce, sliced cucumber, tomato, string beans (cooked) and grated raw carrots, mayonnaise dressing Ice cream

Supper

Creamed asparagus soup

Cottage or cream cheese

Buttered rye toast

Radishes

Ripe olives

Melon

It is best to select only the lean meats for summer consumption. Pork should seldom be eaten during this season. If ham is taken it is best to trim off the fat. Use no greasy thickened gravies and never cook vegetables with grease, which includes fat meats.

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