New Homes for Old Part 28

Bread. Coffee.

ITALIAN (Sicilian)

The following menus represent the diet of a Sicilian family from Palermo. They have been in America over twenty years, but their diet has changed little. There are ten persons in the family--the mother and two unmarried daughters, a married daughter, her husband and four children. The children are seven, five, and three years, and ten months. Food for the children is prepared separately. For breakfast they have cereal, milk, bread, and stewed fruit; for lunch, rice or potato, bread, milk, and the green vegetables cooked for the family if not cooked with tomato sauce. For supper the children have bread and milk. It is not common in Italian families to make so much difference in the diet for children; they are usually fed on the highly seasoned dishes the family eat, but in this family the mother prepared special food for her children, and her daughter is doing the same and planning their diet even more carefully.

Summer menus:

Monday, August 11, 1919:

BREAKFAST

Coffee or chocolate.

Toast. Italian cookies.

For children, bread and milk or oatmeal and milk.

The coffee is made strong, but is served with hot milk--the cup half or two thirds filled with milk before coffee is poured in. Very often nothing is eaten with the coffee.

LUNCHEON--Noon

Cold sliced meat (left from Sunday).

Tomato and lettuce salad.

Bread. Fruit.

DINNER

Spaghetti with tomato sauce.

Stuffed peppers.

Bread. Fruit.

Tuesday, August 12, 1919:

BREAKFAST

Same every morning.

LUNCHEON

Stew made of long, slender squash, potatoes, onions.

Bread. Fruit.

DINNER

Broiled veal.

Fried potatoes.

Fresh tomatoes with French dressing.

Boiled string beans.

Bread. Fruit.

Wednesday, August 13, 1919:

LUNCHEON

Boiled greens with olive oil.

Fresh tomatoes.

Bread. Cheese.

Fruit.

DINNER

Macaroni with peas.

Diced potatoes with tomato sauce.

Breaded asparagus.

Fruit.

Thursday, August 14, 1919:

LUNCHEON

Breaded fried liver.

Sauce for meat made of vinegar, sugar, chopped orange rind, and bay leaves.

Boiled greens with olive oil.

Bread. Fruit.

DINNER

Macaroni a la Milanese Sauce of finocchi, bread crumbs, anchovi.

Potato cakes.

Fruit.

Friday, August 15, 1919:

LUNCHEON

Egg tamale.

String beans, French dressing.

Bread. Fruit.

DINNER

Fried fish.

Fresh tomatoes.

Cuc.u.mbers. Bread. Fruit.

Sat.u.r.day, August 16, 1919:

LUNCHEON

Potatoes and eggs.