The Metropolitan Cook Book

A life insurance company teaching its policyholders to eat: the Metropolitan's own cookbook, given away from the tower on Madison Square.

The Lunch Box

7 recipes in this part of The Metropolitan Cook Book.

Sandwich Fillings

Minced ham with cream or salad dressing. Left-over meat, minced, with cream or salad dressing. Dried beef, plain or frizzled.

Cheese

Creamed cheese with chopped nuts, olives or peppers, or a combination of these. Sliced cheese with salad dressing or mustard on rye bread…

Fruit

Chopped dates, 6; butter, 2 teaspoons; orange or lemon juice, few drops (2 sandwiches). Wash dates and put through chopper. Add a little…

Vegetable

Sliced tomato with salad dressing, or lettuce and tomato. A small amount of diced, pickled cucumber with cottage cheese. Pickled beets…

Additional Lunch Box Suggestions

Vegetable soups made with either meat stock or cream can be kept hot in a thermos bottle. Hard-cooked eggs are frequently used. As a…

For Industrial Workers

1 minced ham sandwich with white bread 1 Swiss cheese sandwich with rye bread 1 whole tomato 1 apple dumpling 1 cup coffee (in thermos)…

For School Children

1 cottage cheese sandwich on brown bread 1 jelly sandwich on white bread 1 apple pint bottle of milk 2 egg sandwiches on whole wheat bread…

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