FoodNetArchive

The national course in home economics

1917

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Presented as published in 1917. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
strict vegetarians in our broad land to-day. Doubtless a large number have drawn their inspiration from the above institution. In order to show what a grand dinner can be made of vegetable foods, and to furnish suggestions for those who may desire to adopt, at least in a small measure, the vegetarian diet, I give the menu of the above dinner: HENU. Vegetable Oyster Soup Tomato Bisque Toasted Wafers Nut Roast Dressing Nuttolene — Mint Sauce Protose Cutlets Cranberry Sauce Escalloped Potatoes Baked Sweet Potatoes Kornlet Boiled Onions Asparagus Hubbard Squash Graham Bread Swieback Sticks Cocoanut Crisps White Bread Granose Biscuit Walnut Buns Potato Salad Lettuce Celery Caramel Cereal Grape Nectar Fruit Cocoa Malted Nuts Kumyss Peaches Plums Strawberries Cherries Lemon Pie Gold Cake Roasted Almonds Pecans Malaga Grapes Apples Oranges Bananas Bromose If any one will examine a half-dozen typical, well-ordered vegetarian menus, he will agree with us, after examining the same, that it is possible to prepare a good menu without the use of meats. To illustrate this fact, and to assist those who may be interested in the subject, I give place to a few every-day breakfasts and dinners which have been furnished me by the Battle Creek sanitarium: BREAKFAST— THANKSaiVINQ MORNING FRESH FRUIT Malaga Grapes CEREALS Cal. Breakfast Food Apples Rolled Oats DEXTRINIZED GRAINS Granola Zwieback Granut Granose Flakes Crystal Wheat Toasted Granose Biscuits Granola Porridge — Peaches ENTRIES Sliced Protose or Nuttolene — Jelly Broiled Protose Cottage Cheese Poached Eggs VEGETABLES Baked Potatoes — Cream Sauce Stewed Tomatoes Protose Hash TOASTS Toasted Whole-wheat Wafers Strawberry Tomato Snowflake Cream unfermented'breads Sticks Passover Bread Oatmeal Crackers White Crackers Graham Crackers Breakfast Rolls Currant Puflfs Cocoanut Crisps fermented breads White Bread Fine Graham Bread Coarse Graham Bread COOKED FRUITS Baked Apples Pears Plums Prunes LIQUID FOODS FOR INVALIDS Sterilized Dairy Milk Dairy Milk Caramel-Cereal Dairy Cream Fruit Coco Gluten Gruel Almond Cream 414 HEALTH PARAMOUNT TO ALL ELSE. Another table showing that the very best animal food is only equal to the vegetable in nutritive value: loo Parts. Water. Beef 74 Veal 75 Mutton 71 Pork 76 Chicken 73 Cod « 73 Haddock 82 Sole 0 79 Albumen or Nutritive Fibrin. Gelatin. Matter. 20 6 26 19 6 25 22 29 19 24 20 27 14 21 13 18 IS 6 21 ^*^ ,., HOW TO SERVE THEM. \fff 11 i^ TTRESH fruits may safely be said to be nature's panacea / 1 for many of the ills under which humanity labors.