This section is from the book "Scientific Living For Prolonging The Term Of Human Life", by Laura Nettleton Brown. Also available from Amazon: Scientific Living for Prolonging the Term of Human Life.
The wealthy find true happiness in living the "Simple Life" from choice. The poor are content with it from necessity.
Bunch of Grapes.
Cream of Wheat, simmered.
Unfired Wafers.
Nut Butter.
Milk.
Fresh Peaches.
Creamed Potatoes.
Celery.
Fresh Butter.
Bananas.
Water.
Small Glass of Grape Juice.
Quartered Simmered Potatoes.
Simmered Green Peas with Cream.
Seeded Dates with Whipped Cream.
Nut and Apple Salad, Mayonnaise.
Corn-Bread. Egg-nog. (Milk, egg and fruit juice).
Large Oranges in Halves.
Cream Toast.
Simmered Eggs, soft.
Hot Nut Milk.
Red Semi-acid Apples.
Simmered Rice with Butter.
Lettuce, French Dressing.
Almonds.
Figs.
Unfired Bread.
Nut Butter.
Water.
Small Slice of Melon.
Baked Potatoes.
Fresh Butter.
Simmered Butter Beans.
Nut Salad.
Radishes.
Sliced Tomatoes.
Simmered Rice Pudding with Raisins.
Cold Light Bread.
Slice of Pineapple.
Cold Water.
Woman's Morning of Freedom. Ripe Peaches.
Uncooked Flaked Wheat.
Thin Cream.
Grated Cheese with Chopped Hard Cooked Eggs in Sandwiches.
Almonds.
Dates.
Hot Milk from Chafing Dish.
Ripe Plums.
Milk Gravy.
Whole Wheat Bread.
Poached Eggs.
Small Green Onions.
Cantaloupe with Ice.
Bunch of Ripe Red Currants, or Glass of Canned Currant Juice.
Baked Sweet Potatoes.
Simmered Corn on Cob.
Apple Salad.
Water Cress.
Whole Wheat Gems.
Fresh Butter.
Ripe Pears.
Cocoa.
Semi-acid Red Apples.
Beaten Biscuits.
Fresh Butter.
Honey in Comb.
Scrambled Eggs.
Milk.
Water Melon.
Simmered Macaroni and Cheese.
Unfired Bread, Nut Butter.
Lettuce Salad.
Ripe Olives.
Cocoanut.
Sliced Bananas and Cream.
Milk.
Woman's Club Day.
Use Chafing Dish.
Bunch of Grapes.
Vegetable Soup from Fireless Cooker.
Light Bread.
Cold Macaroni from Luncheon.
Radishes.
Cucumbers.
Simmered Eggs.
Hot, or Cold and Previously Stuffed Brazil Nuts.
Milk.
Butter.
Bananas and Thick Cream with Raisins.
Dry Buttered Toast.
French Poached Eggs.
Simmered Oatmeal.
Figs.
Milk.
Large Oranges in Quarters.
Fresh Corn or Dried Sweet Corn Simmered.
Cream Dressing.
Cheese Rare-bit.
Greens of Spinach with Whipped Cream.
Whole Wheat Bread.
Butter.
Almonds.
Simmered Dried Peaches.
Glass of Canned Blackberry Juice.
Vegetable Pie.
Butter and Cream Dressing.
Hot Salad of Sliced Potatoes.
(Better than French Fried Potatoes).
Dry English Peas, simmered.
Simmered Cauliflower.
Cream Dressing.
Cabbage Salad.
Sliced Tomatoes.
Whole Wheat Bread.
Sliced Pineapple.
Cold Water.
Ripe Peaches.
Corn Bread.
Fresh Butter.
Soft Simmered Eggs.
Natural Banana Coffee.
Bananas.
Pea Soup from peas of previous day.
Croutons.
Lettuce.
Sliced Cucumbers and Onions.
Pecans.
Figs.
Glass of Water with Lemon Juice.
Simmered Rice, or Potatoes.
Simmered or Baked Tomatoes.
Simmered or Baked Beans.
Apple Salad.
Radishes.
Hot Cabbage Salad.
Hot Steamed Brown Bread.
Fresh Chocolate Drops.
The elaborate Sunday dinner is one of the great evils that must be overcome before long life is possible. Because of the thoughtless habit of over-eating on the Sabbath women have allowed themselves to become slaves to needless labor and men greater slaves to appetite. As men do not work on Sunday, they need but a small amount of food. Nuts, fruit, bread, milk, eggs, and honey would supply the best nourishment for a day of rest, besides being more in keeping with the spiritual idea, but as such a reform can hardly be expected with the present generation already in bondage to abnormal appetites, as well as to a thosuand other sins of living, producing slow suicide, the next best thing to do is to regulate habits and work toward the ideal until the future generations can be educated to desire only that which will be preservative to life for the great purpose of Ion-gevity, knowing thai in this is also the highest happiness. As long as man believes he is making a sacrifice of personal pleasure to do right it requires a great effort to live up to his convictions from a sense of duty, but as soon as he realizes that he will gain greater happiness in another way it becomes a pleasure to execute the higher purpose.
The first necessity to emancipate woman from excessive labor on Sunday is to avoid cooking meat - heavy roasts, chicken, stews, turkey, duck, dumplings and meat pies are entirely unsuited to the day, as well as to the needs of the family, so why continue the bad habit of labor and expense to supply them? No reason but that of a general custom.
Beans and brown bread can be simmered in a triple double boiler or in fireless cooker at one time, Saturday forenoon, requiring no watching or care, while salads, nut-meats, vegetables, or pie or cake are being prepared. The part for the Saturday dinner being left in the cooking dish to be re-heated when needed, leaving the woman free for the afternoon, as well as on Sunday. Nuts and fruit should be used naturally through the week, leaving special preparations for luxuries, thus fruit salads, jelly moulds, fruit custards, nut salads, nut and fig cake, cheese dainty, mock chicken - nuts, bread, eggs, made into mould and baked - whipped cream dressings, ambrosia, etc., afford plenty of delicious and healthful food for extra dinners and luncheons without great labor or resorting to the same old abominable mixtures that have always been kept "for company/' Dinner and luncheon should be reversed on Sunday to avoid evening cooking.
Oranges.
Whole wheat unleavened gems.
Fresh Butter.
Milk.
Honey.
Bunch of Grapes.
Mashed Potatoes, Milk Gravy.
Sliced cold (mock) chicken.
Heated Simmered Beans.
Sliced Tomatoes.
Cold Sliced Brown Bread.
Nut Salad.
Mayonnaise Dressing.
Sliced Cucumbers.
Celery.
Ambrosia or Pumpkin Pie.
Marshmallow Squares.
Apples.
Water.
Cantaloupe.
Bowl of Bread and Milk.
Unfired Wafer and Cheese.
English Walnuts.
Pecans.
Fresh Peaches.
Dates.
Angel Food Cake.
Water.
 
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