Quantity Cookery: Menu Planning and Cooking for Large Numbers

vegetables 1-2 hot breads 1-2 sandwiches 2-3 salads 2-3 relishes 6-8 desserts 4 beverages _Meats_ One inexpensive meat should be served in each meal. Two made-over meats should not be served in the same meal. Two kinds of beef or pork or two kinds of any other variety of meat should not be served in the same meal. _Potatoes_ Creamed potatoes may be served with meat lacking gravy or sauce. It is seldom advisable to serve mashed potatoes unless there is a meat gravy to offer with them. _Vegetables_ When possible one vegetable should be starchy and one should be succulent. Two creamed or two fried or two buttered vegetables should not be served in the same meal. _Breads_ Raised breads and quick breads give a good variety. _Salads_ There should be at least one inexpensive salad. The variety in salads may consist of one fruit salad, one vegetable salad and one salad in which protein predominates, such as cottage cheese, meat or fish. Head lettuce salad is universally popular and may appear at every meal. In salad dressings, there should always be a cooked dressing, French dressing and mayonnaise. Other varieties may be added as desired. _Desserts_ Variety in desserts includes: Fruit in some form. A pudding with a dough or bread foundation. Two cold puddings. One kind of ice cream. One kind of cake. One kind of pie. One-crust and two-crust pies should so far as possible be alternated in successive menus. Two or more kinds of pie may be demanded, but when possible patrons should be educated to other choices in desserts. _Beverages_ Milk should be served in bottles (with provision for opening). Thirty Days' Menus for a Cafeteria The careful manager spends a great deal of time in menu planning. If some systematic method of menu making can be adopted and used with a mind constantly alert to seasonal changes in foods, new and attractive dishes and variety in serving, the plan may result in saving much of this time. A set of menus for thirty days has been worked out, with the idea that they