This section is from the book "A Manual Of Home-Making", by Martha Van Rensselaer. Also available from Amazon: A Manual of Home-Making.
Breakfast: Cereal with thin cream; eggs, poached, boiled, or scrambled; milk with bread and butter; fruit may be eaten at this meal.
Mid-morning meal: Glass of milk and a cracker.
Dinner: Small piece of steak or roast, fish or chicken; potato, rightly cooked cabbage or other vegetable; bread and butter and milk; some simple dessert, such as custard, bread and jelly, or fruit.
Supper: Eggs or cream soup or milk toast, bread and butter, milk, stewed fruit or bread and jelly.
 
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