New Homes for Old Part 30

Bread. Fruit.

Sat.u.r.day:

LUNCHEON

Broiled liver.

Lettuce salad. Bread.

Fruit.

DINNER

Lima beans with celery, onions, and tomatoes.

Stuffed artichokes.

Bread. Coffee. Fruit.

Sunday:

BREAKFAST

Coffee and Italian fried cakes.

DINNER

Macaroni with tomato sauce and chopped meat.

Pot roast. Peas.

Ice cream.

SUPPER

Rice cooked in milk with egg.

Cake. Coffee.

SLOVENIAN

Menus given by a Slovenian woman show the diet of a family of moderate income whose food habits have not been modified in America. Certain European customs are observed; no desserts are served, and no baking powder is used. Sweet cookies, raised with yeast, and fresh fruit, are given to children who are allowed candy, so that they may not feel deprived of sweets when they see other children eating candy at school. The older children have learned to prepare new "American"

dishes at school, but these are not used at home, as the whole family prefer the Slovenian diet.

BREAKFAST

Coffee, bread and b.u.t.ter.

(Breakfast is always the same.)

10 A.M.

An egg, a sandwich, or a cup of milk for parents.

Fruit for children.

LUNCH

1. Rice cooked with mushrooms, celery, onions, and spice. In cold weather fifteen cents' worth of pork is cooked with the rice. Water with fruit juice to drink, or the water from cooked fruit.

2. Buckwheat cakes, eaten with cooked dried fruit or jelly.

3. Barley and beans cooked together. Colored beans are used, and must be tried to see whether they will cook in the same time as the barley. Olive oil, bacon or sausage, and a little garlic are added.

4. Millet (kasa) cooked in milk with sugar, then baked in the oven fifteen minutes and served with milk.

5. French toast.

6. Corn-meal mush, fried, with sauerkraut. "A good quality of corn meal is used, bought in Italian districts." Boiling water is poured very slowly into a dish of meal, and allowed to stand twenty minutes. Mush is fried in b.u.t.ter, eaten with sauerkraut, cooked dried fruit or honey.

7. Noodles with Parmesan cheese.

8. Noodles with baked apples.

3 P.M.

Coffee, bread with b.u.t.ter or jelly.

(Coffee is very weak for children; a great deal of milk is added.)

DINNER

1. Beef soup with farina dumplings.

Meat (from the soup) eaten with a relish.

Potatoes. Turnips. Bread.

2. Vegetable soup.

Roast meat.

Vegetables.

Bread. Water.

FOOTNOTE:

[82] Michael M. Davis, _Immigrant Health and the Community_.

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