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 Two

MONDAY

Breakfast

Muskmelon

Cream of wheat with cream or milk Cereal coffee or Sanka

Lunch

Chicken gumbo soup

Triscuit

Green peas

Sliced tomatoes

Fresh fruit

Iced cocoa

Dinner

Creamed chicken with mushrooms

Baked potatoes

Cauliflower

Salad: Romaine, sliced radishes and cucumbers, mayonnaise

Sliced peaches

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Cantaloupe

Puffed rice and bran flakes with cream Glass of milk or cup of cereal coffee Lunch

Salad: Combination vegetable, Thousand Island dressing Strawberry shortcake (biscuit dough crust) with or without cream

Dinner

Pot roast

Baked potato

Spinach

Boiled onions

Salad: Lettuce and grated raw carrot, mayonnaise dressing

Lemon gelatin with cream

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Honeydew melon

Poached eggs (2)

Whole wheat toast

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Plain omelet

Graham muffins

String beans

Watercress

Radishes

Blueberries

Dinner

Boiled ham (hot)

Beet greens

Mashed potatoes

Salad: Lettuce and cucumber, French dressing

Almond bisque

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Cantaloupe

Coddled eggs

Whole wheat toast

Cereal coffee or Postum

Lunch

Baked potato

Stewed white onions, butter sauce

Salad: Romaine, French dressing

Berries

Iced Kaffee Hag

Dinner

Cold boiled ham

Small new potatoes and peas cooked together, butter or cream sauce

Asparagus

Salad: Watercress, cucumbers and tomatoes, mayonnaise dressing

Cantaloupe or honeydew melon

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Bran flakes with berries and cream Whole wheat toast

Glass of milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Poached eggs on rye toast

Salad: Lettuce heart, radishes, mayonnaise dressing Berries

Buttermilk

Dinner

Broiled fresh mackerel dressed with melted butter, garnished with watercress and slice of lemon Baked potatoes

Carrots and peas

Salad: Endive and tomato, mayonnaise dressing Pineapple fluff

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Blackberries with cream

Bran muffins

Glass of milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Coddled eggs (2)

Whole wheat toast

Romaine salad, mayonnaise dressing Fresh fruit

Buttermilk

Dinner

Broiled steak garnished with watercress Baked potatoes

String beans

Salad: Sliced tomatoes and lettuce hearts, Thousand Island dressing

Peach sherbet

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Sliced peaches with cream

English graham muffins

Glass of milk, or cereal coffee

Dinner

Roast beef, natural gravy

Mashed potatoes

Buttered beets

Spinach

Salad: Tomatoes halved and stuffed with chopped cucumbers, shredded cabbage and pimento (canned), mayonnaise dressing

Lemon meringue custard

Supper

Cold creamed beet soup

Toasted triscuit with butter

Salad: Watercress, asparagus tips, endive and sliced pineapple, mayonnaise dressing

Grapes

Many believe that meat is very nourishing and essential to growth, strength and health. This is a mistake. Meat is eaten so extensively because it is a habit. Ordinarily meat is not very nourishing but it is rather stimulating; it also produces autointoxication in the body more quickly than any other food.

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