Quantity Cookery: Menu Planning and Cooking for Large Numbers

may be repeated at the end of that time without too monotonous repetition. No Sunday meals are included since the majority of cafeterias are closed on that day. The Friday menus occur on the fifth day and every sixth day thereafter. No menu is shown for Saturday night when, if a meal is served, it may consist of popular dishes such as chicken in some form, waffles or steaks, along with such left-overs as it may be desirable to use. The menus are intended to serve as a _foundation_ to which may be added new dishes and seasonable fruits and vegetables, a suggestive list of which is given elsewhere (see pages 57-59). From these foundation menus may be eliminated such dishes as are unpopular or out of season, or which for any reason it is impractical to serve. Commercial cafeterias may find it necessary to add other choices to these menus. Very small cafeterias may offer fewer choices. The majority of establishments, however, will find this variety ample, the idea being to serve the maximum variety within the week rather than within the day or meal. A star has been used to indicate those dishes in which left-overs may be used to particular advantage. CAFETERIA MENUS +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | DATE | DATE | DATE | | =Monday= | =Tuesday= | =Wednesday= | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | BREAKFAST | BREAKFAST | BREAKFAST | | FRUITS | FRUITS | FRUITS | | Grapefruit | Oranges | Grapefruit | | Prunes | Bananas | Baked apples | | Apples | Apricots | Stewed figs | | Stewed cherries | Canned pears | Canned plums | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | CEREALS | CEREALS | CEREALS | | Cream of wheat, | Cream of barley | Oatmeal | | chopped figs | Post toasties | Shredded wheat | | Grapenuts | Puffed wheat | Grapenuts | | Puffed rice | | | +----------------------+----------------------+----------------------+ | HOT DISHES | HOT DISHES | HOT DISHES | | Fried eggs | Pancakes | Fried mush | | Bacon | Cinnamon toast | Broiled Ham | | Wheat muffins | Poached Eggs | Toast |