The Book of a Thousand Menus

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With Meat, to Gain Weight—Winter: Week Four

MONDAY

Breakfast

Apple sauce

Rice griddle cakes (greaseless griddle), maple syrup Postum, or cereal coffee

Lunch

Salad of romaine, endive and tomatoes, garnished with grated carrots and ripe olives, mayonnaise dressing Rice custard pudding cooked with raisins, served with cream

Dinner

Baked lamb croquettes

Baked potatoes

Creamed onions

String beans

Salad: Lettuce and tomato, French dressing Chocolate blanc-mange, with cream TUESDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple with cream

Whole wheat toast

Postum or cereal coffee

Lunch

Omelet, plain

Crisp bacon

Salad: Lettuce hearts, French dressing Apple sauce

Wheatsworth crackers

Sanka

Dinner

Oxtail soup with barley

Beef tenderloin, broiled

Baked potatoes Brussels sprouts creamed Salad: Endive, celery and diced apple, Russian dressing Wine jello with whipped cream

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Coffee cake

Apple sauce

Cocoa, milk or cereal coffee Lunch

Chicken giblet soup with drop dumplings Celery

Olives

Cup custard

Dinner

Roast or stewed chicken

Cranberry sauce

Baked sweet potatoes

Stewed corn

Celery

Olives

Baked apple with cream Sanka

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple with cream ? Rye toast Kaffee Hag, milk or Postum Lunch

Shirred eggs

Bran muffins

Celery

Prunes

Milk or Postum

Dinner

Creamed chicken on toast Baked potatoes

String beans

Salad: Lettuce heart, mayonnaise Celery

Fruit gelatin with cream

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Rye toast

Milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Macaroni and cheese

Wheatsworth crackers

Celery

Fruit salad, creamed mayonnaise dressing

Dinner

Baked white fish or shad, garnished with watercress

Boiled potatoes

String beans

Salad: Combination vegetable, Indian salad dressing

Apple and tapioca custard pudding

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Sliced bananas and oranges

Graham toast

Kaffee Hag, Postum or cereal coffee

Lunch

Beef broth with rice

Graham bread

Buttered beets

Celery

Stewed silver prunes

Dinner

Creamed chipped beef

Baked potatoes

String beans

Salad: Lettuce or watercress, string beans and chopped beets, mayonnaise dressing

Chocolate éclair

Sanka

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Grapefruit

Raisins

Scrambled eggs and crisp bacon served on thin rye toast Kaffee Hag or Postum

Dinner

Roast veal, natural gravy

Riced potatoes Boiled onions or Brussels sprouts Salad: Endive, chopped celery and slices of pineapple, mayonnaise dressing

Ice cream

Sanka café noir

Supper

Corn omelet

Cranberry sauce

Peas

Celery

Boston brown bread

Cream cheese

Postum or Kaffee Hag

TAB

Frying is always bad because fried foods are so difficult to digest. Frying sears the food cells so that the digestive juices have difficulty in breaking them down, and for this reason it is a poor method of cooking.

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