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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Meatless, to Gain Weight—Winter: Week Two

MONDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Whole wheat muffins

Cocoa, milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Split pea soup

Spinach with poached eggs

Celery

Olives

Orange

Nuts

Dinner

Baked potato

Creamed kohlrabi

Carrots

Corn bread

Salad: Combination vegetable and fruit, mayonnaise dressing

Cup custard

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Spiced apple sauce with raisins

Baked French toast

Cocoa, milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Creamed potato soup with egg drops

Mashed rutabaga

Salad: Lettuce hearts, mayonnaise dressing

Sliced orange

Dinner

Baked beans, navy or lima (no pork)

Tomato sauce

Asparagus

Buttered beets

Salad: Cole slaw with pimento and green pepper, mayonnaise

Chocolate custard

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Apples stewed with prunes

English muffins

Coddled eggs

Milk, Postum or cereal coffee

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Whole wheat bread spread with American cheese and toasted in the oven

Creamed onions Celery Olives

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Dinner

Glazed sweet potatoes

Whole wheat gems

Cranberry sauce

Spinach

Cauliflower

Salad: Lettuce, diced apples, grapefruit pulp, dates, mayonnaise

Pumpkin custard

Sanka

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Apple sauce

Corn bread with butter

Cocoa, milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Baked potatoes

Carrots and peas

Salad: Apple and nut, mayonnaise dressing

Dinner

Lima bean soup

Baked sweet potatoes

Cauliflower

Baked Spanish onions with butter

Salad: Romaine and celery, Russian dressing

Scalloped apples (with orange and banana)

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple and cream

Graham gems

Coddled eggs

Cocoa, milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Green pea soup and drop dumplings

Baked potato

Fruit salad with nut meats on lettuce, creamed mayonnaise dressing

Postum

Dinner

Spaghetti with cheese

String beans

Mashed turnips

Salad: Endive, tomato and olives, dressing to suit

Pineapple whip with whipped cream

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Whole wheat and raisin gems

Cocoa, milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Creamed barley soup

Baked Spanish onion

Celery

Olives

Bread custard pudding

Dinner

Stuffed baked potatoes Carrots and peas

Graham bread

Salad: Endive, asparagus tips (canned) and celery,

Thousand Island dressing

Apple surprise

Kaffee Hag

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Apples stewed with silver prunes, orange rind and nutmeg Spiced raisin coffee cake

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Dinner

Eggs a la King

Mashed potatoes

Candied parsnips

Cauliflower

Salad: Fruit and vegetable, creamed mayonnaise dressing Apple meringue (hot or cold)

Supper

Tomato bisque

Toasted triscuit

Cheese soufflé

Peas

Celery

Olives

Stewed dried peaches

Creamed soups are often listed in these menus.

The reason is that they are helpful in adding flesh. Milk in combination with other foods is fattening; cream is even more fattening. If thickening is added to the soup, that makes it even more nourishing.

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