This section is from the book "Scientific Feeding", by Mrs. Dora C. C. L. Roper. Also available from Amazon: Scientific feeding.
Rice with cream or tomato sauce, eight almonds or one large zwieback with one level tablespoonful of almond butter and raisins.
Rice | 3 tablesps. | 150 |
Hot cream | 2 ounces | 115 |
Almonds | 8 | 80 |
Raisins (large) | 8 | 80 |
425 |
Calves'-foot and tomato jelly with graham toast or puffed wheat and milk or black malt coffee.
Jelly | 1/2 cup | 50 |
Puffed Wheat | 1 cup | 100 |
Milk | 8 ounces | 165 |
315 |
Raspberries or strawberries, plain shredded wheat with cream.
Raspberries | 1/2 cup | 30 |
Shredded wheat | 1 | IOO |
Cream | 2 ounces | 115 |
245 |
Potato or apple salad, and lettuce with mayonnaise dressing, fish, black crusts and black coffee.
Potatoes | .2 medium | 15O |
Oil | 4 tablesps. | 400 |
Yolk of egg | 1 | 48 |
Lemon or vinegar | About 1 tablesp. | 5 |
Raw onion (finely chopped). | 1/2 piece | 3 |
Crusts | 3 | 75 |
681 |
Cook's flaked rice gruel with hot cream, cream toast or vegetable cream soup.
Flaked rice | 1 cup | 100 |
Hot cream | 2 ounces | 115 |
Hot water | 1 cup | |
215 |
Cooked string beans with butter sauce and parsley, fried bacon and triscuit with butter.
String beans (cut up). | 1/2 cup | 20 |
Butter sauce | 1/2 cup | 135 |
Fried bacon | .2 ounces | 200 |
Triscuit | 1 | 35 |
Butter | 1 teasp. | 35 |
425 |
Barley soup with crackers, pea puree on toast, stewed prunes with cream.
Barley ............................................................................. | 3 tablesps | . 270 |
Butter................................................................................ | 1 teasp. | 35 |
Cracker | 1 | 25 |
Pea puree | 2 tablesps. | 100 |
Toast | 1 large | 100 |
Prunes | 5 | 100 |
Cream ............................................................................. | 2 ounces | 115 |
745 |
Bran tea with cream. A piece of cake or a slice of light egg toast.
1/2 cup | 110 | |
Cream | 1 ounce | 58 |
Egg | 1 | 6o |
Soupstock | 1/4 cup | 25 |
Butter for frying | 1 tablesp. | 105 |
358 |
 
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