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.

Cooking Hints and Recipes

45 pages in this part of The Book of a Thousand Menus.

Cooking Hints and Recipes

This chapter is not intended as a complete treatise on cooking. It merely contains a few helpful hints for those who wish to prepare foods…

Soups

When soup is to be served hot, be sure that it is piping hot; for what is more unappetizing than lukewarm or greasy soup? Jellied or fruit…

Fruit Soup

Pick over and wash the berries, place in kettle and add cold water. Bring slowly to boil; let boil five minutes; strain, add the orange…

Iced Tomato Bouillon

2 cups beef or veal stock

Jellied Beef Bouillon

Dissolve the bouillon cubes in one quart of boiling water. Dissolve thoroughly the gelatin in ¼ cup of cold water, then stir into the beef…

Vegetables

In selecting food, vegetables and fruits should have first place as being most conducive to health.

Vegetable Omelet

Scatter one-half cup chopped, cooked asparagus, peas, cauliflower, mushrooms, green pepper or string beans, over the omelet just before…

Oyster Plant Pudding

4 cups oyster plant, grated or 1 tablespoon flour chopped very fine

Potato Hash

2 tablespoons melted butter cooked celery root

Potato Mold

Wash and peel potatoes, slice very thin. Butter a round mold, put a layer of potatoes in the bottom, a small amount of minced onion may be…

Potato Puff

4 cups hot mashed potatoes 2 eggs 4 tablespoons milk

Candied Sweet Potatoes

Wash potatoes; cook until soft but not mushy; drain and peel. Cut in slices, lengthwise, and put in a buttered baking pan. Spread with…

Caramel Potatoes

Wash and boil potatoes, drain and peel; add two tablespoons butter, seasoning and a little hot milk. Mash and beat until very light. Place…

Scalloped Kidney Beans

Canned beans may be used. Parboil the rice until done and flaky; drain. Arrange beans and rice in layers in baking dish; mix balance of…

Vegetable Hodge-Podge

This is something fine, if you are so fortunate as to have a waterless heavy aluminum oval roaster or large kettle.

Salads and Salad Dressings

Salads: When green leaf vegetables are used for a salad, buy only those that are fresh and crisp. Wilted greens will ruin any salad.

Meats and Poultry

A choice piece of meat is often ruined by careless cooking, and an inferior cut can be made delicious by adopting the proper method. Meat…

Roasting, Broiling

Roasting and broiling develop a delicious flavor in meats. The only meats suitable for this method are the short-fibred, fine grained meats…

Pot Roasting

In pot roasting the meat should be seared over quickly in a thick, very hot kettle, and then add a little water, cover tightly, and cook…

Braising or Smothering

Braising is similar to pot roasting, only the meat is cooked in the oven in a tightly covered pan with a small amount of water.

Stewing

The stewing meat is cut in rather small pieces; if a brown stew is desired, sear the cut pieces of meat the same as for a pot roast. Then…

Desserts

It is important for the menu maker to have a number of such desserts that will enable her to maintain a proper balance in meals. For…

Gelatins

Then there are the assorted gelatins to select from; combined with fruit they are an excellent dessert for summer or winter. For those who…

Frozen Desserts

For freezing smooth, fine-grained ice cream sherbet or water ice, three parts of ice to one part of salt should be used.

Custard

Baked custard should be set in a pan of water and placed in a slow oven. Soft or boiled custards should be cooked in a double boiler, and…

Soft Custard

A soft custard is made in a double boiler; it should be stirred constantly. Fewer eggs may be used in soft custard by substituting one…

Blanc-Mange

Blanc-manges are made of eggs, milk, cornstarch, sugar and flavoring. A blanc-mange should be cooked in a double boiler; cook at least ten…

Floating Island

Floating Island is a very soft custard served very cold in glasses, meringue, flavored, heaped on top, garnished with maraschino cherries…

Peach Sherbet

2 cups chopped peaches 2 cups cream 1 cup sugar

Strawberry Mousse

Wash, hull and chop the berries; blend with the sugar and let stand two hours; mash and rub through a coarse sieve. Soften the gelatin with…

Pineapple Fluff

Soak the tapioca in the pineapple juice ten minutes, place in a double boiler; add the sugar, salt and cook one-half hour; add the stiffly…

Fruit Cup

1 cup shredded pineapple 1 cup orange sections

Jellied Custards

Beat egg, add sugar, salt and mix; pour on milk and scald in double boiler until it thickens.

Pineapple Cream Dessert

Boil the rice slowly in slightly salted water, until tender; place in a colander and let cold water run over the rice until the kernels are…

Coffee and Tea

Coffee and tea act as stimulants. After the effect wears off one feels nervous and depressed.

Coffee with Caffeine Removed

If one must drink coffee then choose Kaffee Hag or Sanka. Both of these products are made from real coffee from which it is claimed that…

Cereal Coffee

There are many excellent cereal coffees on the market that one can learn to like equally as well as coffee. These cereal coffees are made…

Chocolate and Cocoa

Chocolate and cocoa have a high nutritive value and when prepared with milk they are still more important as foods.

Cold Drinks

For hot weather there are many refreshing cold drinks to choose from. Punch may be made in many different ways. Julep, fizzes, limeades…

Fruit Nectar

Boil the sugar and 2 cups of water five minutes; cool and add the fruit juice and ice water. Serve very cold with two or three maraschino…

Raspberry Cup

Heat the raspberries and currants until soft; strain; add to the juice sugar and lemon juice; put into pitcher with a large piece of ice…

Lime and Mint Julep

Mix sugar and water, boil five minutes; cool; add the lime juice and peppermint. Serve in glasses with cracked ice. Garnish with slice of…

Grape Punch

1 small piece of ginger root 1 quart bottle grape juice

Fruit Highball

1 small piece of ginger root raspberries

Pineapple Highball

Press the pineapple and grapefruit pulp through a sieve; add the orange juice, sugar and water. Serve in tall glasses, one-fourth filled…

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