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 Three

MONDAY

Breakfast

Raspberries

Shredded wheat with milk or cream Cereal coffee

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Baked potato

String beans

Sliced tomatoes, plain

Iced cocoa

Cantaloupe

Dinner

Slices of roast beef served cold or heated in natural gravy String beans

Stewed tomatoes

Potatoes au gratin

Salad: Lettuce and green pepper, mayonnaise dressing Coffee jelly with cream

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Grapes

Coddled eggs

Whole wheat muffins

Cereal coffee or Postum

Lunch

Carrots and peas (cooked together) Peach shortcake (biscuit dough) with cream Dinner

Broiled veal cutlet, dot with butter, garnish with parsley or watercress

Baked potato

Corn on the cob

Beet greens

Salad: Lettuce heart, mayonnaise dressing Fruit and melon ball

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Sliced peaches with cream

Spiced whole wheat coffee cake with raisins Glass of milk or cereal coffee Lunch

Vegetable soup

Radishes

Blueberry pudding, lemon sauce Dinner

Boiled tongue

Baked potato

Spinach

Boiled onions, butter sauce

Salad: Lettuce heart, mayonnaise dressing Peach sherbet

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Strawberries and cream

Graham toast, buttered

Cereal coffee or Kaffee Hag

Lunch

Corn on the cob

String beans

Sliced tomatoes, plain

Fresh fruit (plums, grapes or tangerines) Dinner

Lamb stew (vegetables cooked separately) Boiled new potatoes

Carrots and peas

Salad:

Sliced cucumbers, tomatoes and watercress, mayonnaise

Chocolate custard

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Muskmelon

Whole wheat toast

Crisp bacon

Glass of milk or Kaffee Hag

Lunch

Melted American cheese on rye toast

Salad: Combination vegetable, mayonnaise dressing

Berries

Dinner

Broiled bass served with butter sauce, sliced lemon and watercress

Baked potatoes

Creamed oyster plant

Green peas

Salad: Sliced cucumbers, tomatoes and French endive, dressing to suit

Lemon ice

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Raspberries with cream

Poached eggs

Toasted triscuit

Sanka or cereal coffee

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Rye toast

Sliced cucumbers, French dressing or served plain

Pineapple delight

Dinner

Broiled steak with mushrooms

Baked potatoes

Cauliflower

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

Peach sherbet

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Honeydew melon

Blueberry muffins

Glass of milk, Postum or Kaffee Hag Dinner

Chicken fricassee

Boiled new potatoes with chopped parsley Cauliflower

Buttered beets

Salad: Romaine and sliced cucumbers, French dressing Strawberry mousse

Supper

Jelly omelet

Whole wheat toast

Green peas

Radishes

Olives

Melon or berries

In preparing meat-vegetable stews cook the meat in one kettle and the vegetables together in another until done; then mix meat and vegetables and bring to boiling point. This method of cooking leaves all of the foods digestible.

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