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 Two

MONDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apples with raisins

Graham toast

Kaffee Hag or glass of milk

Lunch

Macaroni and cheese

Carrots and peas

Salad: Lettuce and green pepper, New England dressing

Stewed prunes

Dinner

Vegetable soup

Cold tongue

Baked potato

Boiled beets

Mashed turnips

Celery

Olives

Whole wheat bread pudding

Sanka

TUESDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Corn muffins with honey

Cereal coffee

Lunch

Bean soup

Graham bread

Baked potato

Romaine salad, mayonnaise dressing

Milk

Dinner

Lamb chops broiled

Mashed potatoes

Carrots and peas

Fruit salad, cream mayonnaise dressing

Cup custard

Kaffee Hag

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast

Stewed silver prunes

Corn bread

Glass of milk

Lunch

Baked beans

Green peas

Celery

Olives

Cup custard

Dinner

Mutton broth with barley

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Veal chops broiled

Mashed potatoes

Cauliflower

Salad: Lettuce and kidney beans, sour cream dressing

Baked apple with cream

THURSDAY

Breakfast

Apple sauce

Date popovers

Kaffee Hag, milk or Postum

Lunch

Vegetable soup

Celery

Custard bread pudding with raisins

Postum

Dinner

Broiled steak

Baked potato

Kohlrabi

Peas

Salad: Lettuce hearts, mayonnaise dressing

Cottage pudding, vanilla sauce

Sanka

FRIDAY

Breakfast

Dish of prunes with cream

Graham muffins

Glass of milk

Lunch

Cottage cheese with chives and water cress

Rye bread

Stewed corn

Salad: Cole slaw, mayonnaise dressing

Apple crisp

Dinner

Boiled halibut with egg sauce

Baked potato

Stewed carrots

Salad: Endive, celery and peas, mayonnaise dressing

Lemon jello with cream

Sanka

SATURDAY

Breakfast

Stewed apricots

Whole wheat toast

Kaffee Hag, milk or cereal coffee

Lunch

Potatoes au gratin

Stewed tomatoes

Celery

Baked apples with cream

Dinner

Lentil soup

Boiled beef

Horseradish sauce

Baked onions

Boiled potatoes

Mashed rutabaga

Salad: Endive, green pepper and celery, Russian dressing

Cup custard

SUNDAY

Breakfast

Baked apple with cream

Waffles with honey or maple syrup

Kaffee Hag or Postum

Dinner

Roast beef, natural gravy

Baked potatoes

String beans or cauliflower

Salad: Cole slaw with green pepper and grated carrots, Thousand Island dressing

Blueberry (canned) pudding, lemon sauce Sanka

Supper

Macaroni and cheese

Wheatsworth crackers

Peas

Celery

Olives

Stewed silver prunes

Butter is a very fattening food. Because it contains some water and salt it is not as fattening, ounce for ounce, as olive oil or any other edible oil, but it ranks next to them.

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