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With Meat, to Gain Weight—Winter: Week Five

MONDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit

Dates

Corn bread or muffins

Coddled eggs

Sanka or cereal coffee

Lunch

Macaroni and cheese

Carrots and peas

Celery

Corn bread, butter

Stewed (dried) peaches

Postum or buttermilk

Dinner

Lima bean soup

Veal croquettes (baked)

Baked sweet potatoes, boiled Spanish onions, butter sauce

Celery

Cranberry sauce

Pineapple delight

TUESDAY

Breakfast

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Silver prunes

Raisins

Buckwheat cakes with butter and maple syrup

Kaffee Hag, cereal coffee or milk

Lunch

Baked beans (no pork)

Boston brown bread

Cottage cheese

Salad: Fruit salad on lettuce, mayonnaise dressing

Postum

Dinner

Boiled short ribs of beef, horseradish sauce

Baked potatoes

Boiled cabbage and onions

Salad: Lettuce, grated carrots and diced apple, mayonnaise

Prune whip

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Stewed prunes and figs

Rye toast

Crisp bacon

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Mutton broth with barley

Baked potatoes

Brussels sprouts

Baked apple with cream

Buttermilk

Dinner

Boiled tongue

Spinach Riced potatoes

Salad: Cabbage, celery and chopped figs, mayonnaise dressing

Fruit gelatin with cream

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Whole wheat raisin bread toasted

Milk, Sanka or cereal coffee

Lunch

Split pea soup

Cheese fondu

Celery

Olives

Postum

Dinner

Baked green peppers stuffed with boiled rice, minced tongue and celery, served with tomato or white sauce

Rutabaga

Peas

Salad: Cabbage, apples and raisins, Thousand Island dressing

Banana bisque

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Raisins

Graham toast

Boiled eggs

Kaffee Hag or cereal coffee

Lunch

Clam chowder

Pilot biscuit

Stewed corn

Celery

Baked apple

Dinner

Fruit cocktail

Boiled fresh cod, egg sauce

Spinach Riced potatoes

Salad: Lettuce hearts, melted butter dressing

Lemon meringue custard

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Stewed figs and raisins

Corn bread

Crisp bacon

Sanka or Postum

Lunch

Beef broth with rice or dumplings

Corn bread

Succotash

Celery

Stewed apricots

Postum

Dinner

Broiled lamb chops

Scalloped kidney beans

Creamed cabbage and green peppers

Salad: Stuffed apple salad

Apple dumpling (baked), vanilla sauce

Kaffee Hag

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple with cream

Rice waffles

Scrambled eggs

Kaffee Hag

Dinner

Pineapple cocktail

Roast chicken, cranberry sauce

Mashed potatoes

Cauliflower, butter sauce

Salad: Carrot and banana on lettuce, French dressing Pumpkin custard

Supper

Chicken giblet and gumbo soup

Celery

Olives

Blueberry (canned) muffins

Sanka, cocoa or Postum

Many will say that they fry their foods in butter or olive oil and hence that it is not harmful. The truth is that it is just as injurious to fry in butter or vegetable oils as it is to fry in lard. It is the frying itself that is bad; not the origin of the fat.

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