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A thousand menus for 1927 — sixty-seven weeks of breakfasts, lunches and dinners, reckoned to the calorie and the vitamin.

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St. Valentine's Day

Fruit cocktail

Creamed tomato soup served with popcorn sprinkled on top

Celery

Radishes

Olives

Broiled lamb chops, Frenched, with paper holders Boiled baby beets surrounded with green peas, served in heart-shaped timbale cases, and place on top of each a spoonful of creamy mashed potatoes Salad: French endive or lettuce, asparagus tips, sliced pineapple and maraschino cherries, cream mayonnaise dressing

Heart-shaped molds of strawberry and vanilla ice cream Color one-half of the mayonnaise dressing pink with beet juice. If the timbale shells are made of pastry crust, it is best not to eat them.

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