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 One

MONDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit Buckwheat cakes, butter, maple syrup

Postum or cereal coffee

Lunch

Plain omelet

Rye bread

String beans

Watercress salad dressed with oil and lemon juice

Apple sauce

Dinner

Broiled lamb chops

Baked potato Carrots and peas

Salad: Lettuce hearts, mayonnaise dressing

Prune whip

Kaffee Hag

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Prunes

Bran flakes with cream

Whole wheat toast

Postum or cereal coffee

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Poached eggs on spinach

Endive, plain

Charlotte Russe

Dinner

Broiled beef tenderloin, dressed with butter and garnished with parsley and sliced lemon

Boiled potato String beans

Stewed tomatoes

Salad: Lettuce and sliced Avocado, French dressing

Apple tapioca pudding

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Sliced oranges

Graham muffins

Coddled eggs

Postum or cereal coffee

Lunch

Macaroni and cheese

Boiled onions

Celery

Baked apples

Dinner

Boiled tongue

Buttered beets

String beans

Baked potatoes

Salad: Romaine and slices of pineapple, ripe olives, mayonnaise dressing

Custard bread pudding

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Rye toast

Poached eggs

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Whole wheat bread

Pimento cream cheese

Ripe olives

Stewed tomatoes

Coffee jelly with cream

Dinner

Pot roast, natural gravy

Baked potatoes

Cabbage boiled with sliced green peppers and onions

Salad: Lettuce hearts, mayonnaise dressing

Whole apples stewed with prunes, served with whipped cream

Café noir (cereal coffee)

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Sliced bananas and oranges

Graham muffins

Boiled eggs

Postum or cereal coffee

Lunch

Clam chowder

Pilot biscuit

Celery

Olives

Cottage pudding, lemon sauce

Dinner

Broiled Finnan Haddie, butter sauce

Boiled potatoes

Stewed tomatoes

Salad: Romaine and pimento, Thousand Island dressing

Fruit gelatin served with fruit juice sauce

Cereal coffee

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit

Rye toast

Coddled eggs

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Corn bread

Crisp bacon

String beans

Salad: French endive or lettuce (plain or French dressing)

Cherry gelatin

Dinner

Broiled lamb chops

Baked potato

Buttered beets

String beans

Celery

Olives

Banana whip

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple with cream

Corn waffles, maple syrup

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Dinner

Roast lamb, mint jelly

Browned whole potatoes (baked with meat) Asparagus

Salad: Combination vegetable, mayonnaise dressing Olives

Almond bisque

Demi-tasse

Supper

Tomato bisque

Sandwich of rye bread, watercress, cottage cheese and chives

Salad: Mixed fruit salad on lettuce, whipped cream dressing

The fresh vegetables are better than the canned ones and should be used when obtainable. Fresh vegetables are in the market the entire year now and as the country becomes better settled they will be reasonably priced at all seasons.

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