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—Winter: Week Five

MONDAY

Breakfast

Prunes or dates

Whole wheat toast

Boiled eggs

Cereal coffee, Kaffee Hag or Postum Lunch

Vegetable soup

Cottage cheese

Rye bread

Salad: Sliced head lettuce, Thousand Island dressing Olives

Dinner

Cold duck or goose

Baked potato

German red cabbage cooked with apples and raisins Salad: Lettuce hearts, celery, mayonnaise dressing Apple tapioca

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Stewed figs and raisins

Graham toast

Coddled eggs

Coffee

Lunch

Baked green peppers stuffed with brown rice, cheese and chopped onion

Graham muffins

Celery

Olives

Dinner

Boiled ham or tongue

Horseradish sauce

Spinach Baked sweet potatoes Salad: Lettuce hearts with sliced cooked beets, Thousand Island dressing

Apples boiled with prunes

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Graham muffins

Boiled eggs

Cereal coffee or Postum

Lunch

Baked beans (without pork)

Salad: Combination vegetable, Thousand Island dressing

Apple sauce

Kaffee Hag

Dinner

Broiled veal cutlet

Baked potatoes

Mashed rutabaga

String beans

Salad: Cole slaw with pimento, French dressing Olives

Prune whip

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Rice griddle cakes, maple syrup

Sanka or cereal coffee

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Salad: Romaine and green pepper, French dressing

Sliced oranges

Dinner

Boiled short ribs of beef

Horseradish sauce

Riced potatoes

Brussels sprouts Mashed parsnips

Salad: Waldorf on lettuce, mayonnaise dressing Olives

Charlotte Russe

Demi-tasse

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Sliced orange

Graham muffins

Postum, milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Clam chowder

Water wafers

Celery

Waldorf salad on lettuce, creamed mayonnaise dressing Dinner

Broiled bluefish, butter sauce, chopped parsley and sliced lemon

Baked potatoes

Stewed tomatoes or string beans

Salad: Lettuce hearts, Thousand Island dressing Baked apple

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Stewed Silver prunes

Corn griddle cakes, maple syrup or honey Glass of milk

Lunch

Creamed potato soup

Whole wheat popovers with butter Salad: Combination vegetable, mayonnaise dressing Apple sauce

Dinner

Broiled steak

Mushrooms

Buttered boiled onions

Mashed potatoes

Stewed (Golden bantam) corn

Salad: Pineapple, endive and celery, Thousand Island dressing

Banana whip

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit

Rye toast

Crisp bacon

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Dinner

Boiled tongue

Mashed potatoes

Spinach

Buttered beets

Salad: French endive, celery and tomatoes, mayonnaise dressing

Almond bisque

Café noir (cereal coffee)

Supper

Creamed tomato soup

Corn omelet

Salad: Watercress with French dressing Toasted triscuit

Grapes

We do not recommend coffee. When the term Café noir or demi-tasse or Café au lait are used, prepare a coffee from which the caffeine has been removed, or one of the cereal coffees.

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