Menu for Tuesday, May - Sunday, January
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This section is from the book "A Handbook Of Invalid Cooking", by Mary A. Boland. Also available from Amazon: Handbook of Invalid Cooking.
Menu for Tuesday, May - Sunday, January
Tuesday, May
Breakfast. Oatmeal Mush and
Milk.
Buttered Toast.
Dinner. Fried Fish, with
Mint Sauce. Fried Potatoes.
Supper. Fried Farina Pudding. Broiled Salt Pork. Bread. Tea.
Mint Sauce. Two tablespoons of chopped green mint, one tablespoon of sugar, one half cup of vinegar. Mix and let stand an hour or two.
Fried Farina Pudding. One pint of water, one pint of milk, one teaspoon of salt, one half pint of farina, two eggs. Mix the flour and eggs smooth with a part of the milk. Heat the remainder to boiling, and stir in the egg and flour. Continue stirring until it thickens, then cook for fifteen minutes in a double boiler. When cold, cut it in slices and fry them brown on a griddle.
Saturday, September
Breakfast.
Soda-biscuit.
Baked Potatoes, with
Drawn Butter Sauce.
Dinner. Pea Soup. Irish Stew.
Bread.
Supper.
Corn Mush and
Molasses.
Bread and Grated
Cheese. Tea.
Drawn Butter Sauce. Make according to the rule for White Sauce (page 130), except use water instead of milk, and part beef fat instead of all butter.
Irish Stew (page 186).
Sunday, September
Breakfast.
Oatmeal and Milk.
Bread and Butter.
Cocoa.
Dinner. Broiled Beef Liver. Boiled Potatoes and Carrots, with
Fried Onions. Bread and Cheese.
Supper. Lentil Soup, with
Fried Bread. Smoked Herring.
Bread. Barley Porridge.
Boiled Potatoes, and Carrots with Fried Onions. Slice hot boiled potatoes and boiled carrots together. Season them with salt and pepper, and pour over them hot fried onions.
Lentil Soup. Made like Pea Soup, page 307.
Fried Bread. Cut bread into small cubes and fry it in hot fat until light brown.
Barley Porridge. Made with pearl barley soaked over night in water, and then cooked for two hours, or until it is soft. During the last hour add milk instead of water. Flavor with salt and butter.
Tuesday, September
Breakfast.
Fried Bacon.
Boiled Potatoes.
Bread.
Coffee.
Dinner. Boiled Corned Beef, with
Horse-radish Sauce.
Stewed Cabbage.
Bread. Barley Porridge.
Supper.
Pea Soup.
Yeast Biscuit and
Butter.
Stewed Fruit.
Boiled Corned Beef. Boil the beef for three hours, very slowly at first, changing the water once if it is very salt.
Horse-radish Sauce. Add grated horse-radish to drawn butter sauce. Simmer a few minutes.
Barley Porridge, page 309.
Sunday, January
Breakfast. Fried Codfish. Bread and Butter. Coffee.
Dinner.
Sheep's-head Stew, with Soda-biscuit
Dumplings.
Baked Potatoes.
Bread and Grated
Cheese. Cocoa.
Supper. Potato and Onion
Salad. Broiled Salt Pork. Bread. Corn Mush, with Pudding Sauce.
Sheep's-head Stew (see Mutton Stew, page 187).
Potato and Onion Salad. Slice some potatoes (fresh boiled and slightly warm are best). Sprinkle them with minced onion, salt, and pepper. Dress with a little melted butter and vinegar.
Pudding Sauce, the same as that for Apple Dumplings.
Tuesday, January
Breakfast.
Fried Potatoes.
Bread.
Coffee.
Dinner.
Browned Farina
Soup, with Toast.
Stewed Mutton, with
Yeast Dumplings.
Supper.
Bean Soup.
Milk Toast.
Tea.
Browned Farina Soup. Make like Browned Flour Soup, except use farina.
For other similar bills of fare and recipes, see the Lomb Prize Essay, entitled " Practical, Sanitary, and Economic Cooking," which is published and sold at a low price by the American Public Health Association, and may be bought at any book-store. It is most heartily recommended to nurses who do district nursing as a book which will be found useful among the poor and those possessed of moderate means.
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