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.

HomeBalanced Menus with Meat—Winter › Balanced Menus with Meat—Winter: Week Three

Balanced Menus with Meat—Winter: Week Three

MONDAY

Breakfast

Stewed figs or prunes

Rice muffins

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Mutton broth with barley

Celery

Mashed rutabaga

Stewed corn

Whole wheat bread

Sliced oranges

Dinner

Corned beef (vegetables not to be cooked with the meat) Cabbage Turnips and onions Boiled potatoes Salad:

Romaine, grated raw carrots and pimento (canned), mayonnaise dressing

Baked apples, centers stuffed with raisins TUESDAY

Breakfast

Stewed Silver prunes

Buckwheat cakes (greaseless) with maple syrup Cereal coffee or Postum

Lunch

Baked beans cooked without pork but may be served with slices of crisp broiled bacon

Stewed tomatoes

Celery

Dinner

Baked corned beef hash

Brussels sprouts

Buttered beets

Salad: Shredded cabbage and pimento (canned), melted butter dressing

Peach (canned) roll, serve with cream or the syrup as a sauce

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit

Spiced coffee cake

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Bean soup

Spinach with poached egg

Cooked carrots

Celery

Olives

Sliced pineapple

Dinner

Crown of lamb

Mint jelly

Boiled potatoes with chopped celery

Green peas

Boiled onions, buttered

Salad: Lettuce hearts with mayonnaise dressing

Coffee jelly with cream

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Sliced orange or figs

Rice waffles, maple syrup

Postum or cereal coffee

Lunch

Creamed celery soup Water thin crackers or "cheese bits"

Spinach with poached egg

Prunes or dates

Dinner

Baked lamb croquettes

Green peas

Mashed parsnips

Baked potatoes

Salad: Lettuce hearts and celery, mayonnaise dressing

Cherry Monticello

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit

Corn muffins

Coddled eggs

Cereal coffee or Postum

Lunch

Clam chowder

Triscuit

Boiled cabbage and green peppers, dressed with butter and slightly seasoned

Celery

Olives

Dinner

Baked Finnan Haddie, butter sauce and chopped parsley Baked potatoes Stewed tomatoes Boiled buttered onions Salad: Romaine and pimento

Fruit gelatin served with shredded pineapple SATURDAY

Breakfast

Figs stewed with raisins

Graham toast

Boiled eggs

Cereal coffee, Postum or Kaffee Hag Lunch

Creamed pea soup

Ry-Krisp

Cauliflower

Fruit salad with nuts served on lettuce leaves, mayonnaise Dinner

Broiled steak

Baked potatoes

Asparagus String beans

Salad: Lettuce hearts, Thousand Island dressing Snow cream

Café noir (cereal coffee)

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple with cream

Spiced whole wheat coffee cake

Sanka, Postum or Kaffee Hag

Dinner

Roast turkey or capon

Cranberry sauce

Potato fluff

Cauliflower Buttered boiled onions Salad: Lettuce, celery and olives, French dressing Prune whip

Demi-tasse

Supper

Creamed celery soup

Halved peaches (canned) filled with cream cheese, sprinkled with chopped nuts and served on lettuce, or French endive

Whole wheat bread and butter sandwich Postum or cereal coffee

Those who have heavy aluminum ware can do what is called waterless cooking. They can heat the roaster or the kettle very hot and sear the meat and then turn the flame low and allow the meat to cook until it is very tender.

← Balanced Menus with Meat—Winter: Week TwoBalanced Menus with Meat—Winter: Week Four →