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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With Meat, to Gain Weight—Winter: Week Three

MONDAY

Breakfast

Apple sauce with raisins

Graham muffins

Kaffee Hag, milk or postum

Lunch

Creamed potato soup

Celery

Ginger bread

Milk

Dinner

Baked roast beef hash with green peppers

Sweet potatoes and prunes, cooked together Cauliflower

Celery

Olives

Cherry jello with cream

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Stewed prunes

Graham toast

Coddled eggs

Milk or Sanka

Lunch

Crab meat salad

Graham bread

Carrots and peas

Olives

Apple or pear

Kaffee Hag or Postum

Dinner

Lentil soup

Corn pudding served with thin crisp bacon

Lima beans served with butter

Green peas

Salad: Combination fruit with whipped cream

Chocolate éclair

Kaffee Hag

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Apple sauce

Cream of wheat with cream

Postum or cereal coffee

Lunch

Whole wheat muffins

A few slices of crisp bacon served on scrambled eggs

Fruit salad

Dinner

Stewed chicken

Mashed potatoes or boiled rice

Cauliflower

String beans

Salad: Lettuce hearts with pimento, mayonnaise dressing

Baked apple dumpling, vanilla sauce or cream

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple

Oatmeal

Postum or cereal coffee

Lunch

Creamed onion soup

Graham bread

Butter beans and corn

Salad: Watercress, French dressing

Apple or pear

Dinner

Broiled veal cutlet

Baked potato

Boiled cabbage, onions and green peppers

Salad: Romaine, olives, mayonnaise dressing

Pumpkin cup custard

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Sliced oranges and dates Cream of wheat, milk or cream Postum or cereal coffee

Lunch

Split pea soup

Baked potato

Stewed tomatoes

Grapes

Dinner

Broiled bluefish

Spinach garnished with chopped hard boiled egg Cauliflower

Salad: Endive, celery and tomato, Thousand Island dressing

Apricot roll, vanilla sauce

Sanka

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Stewed prunes

Buckwheat cakes, maple syrup

Postum, milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Creamed celery soup Wheatsworth crackers Baked potatoes

Stewed tomatoes

Salad: Romaine with pimento chopped (canned), mayonnaise dressing

Stewed apples

Dinner

Veal chops, broiled

Cranberry jelly

Baked sweet potatoes

Peas

Salad: Lettuce hearts and pimento, Thousand Island dressing

Tapioca fruit custard with whipped cream Kaffee Hag

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apples with raisins

English graham muffins

Postum, milk or cereal coffee

Dinner

Roast lamb

Mint jelly

Mashed potatoes with mushrooms

String beans

Salad: Lettuce heart, celery and tomato, creamed mayonnaise

Cereal coffee jelly with whipped cream Supper

Jelly omelet

Peas

Celery

Olives

Stewed silver prunes

Angel food cake

There are various oils which are good to eat.

Olive oil has the highest reputation and a very honorable history but peanut oil, cotton seed oil and corn oil are also good foods and very fattening.

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