This section is from the book "The American Woman's Cook Book", by Ruth Berolzheimer. Also available from Amazon: The Domestic Arts Edition of the American Woman's Cook Book.
Protein | Milk, eggs, cheese, all meat, poultry and game, all fish and sea foods, peas, beans, corn, all nuts, all grains. |
Calcium | Cheese, almonds, milk, green vegetables and tops, dried peas, beans, figs and dates, all sea food, egg yolk, olives, pecans. |
Phosphorus | Cheese, cashew nuts, almonds, dried peas, beans, lentils, Lima beans, all salt-water fish, liver, egg yolk, chocolate, unrefined grains, all meats and poultry, walnuts, peanuts, pecans. |
Iron | Liver (calf, chicken, lamb), oysters, green vegetables and tops, egg yolk, dried peas, beans, lentils, Lima beans, raisins, currants, dates, prunes, avocados, almonds, fresh meats. |
Copper Manganese | Almonds, oysters, oatmeal, dried lentils, beans and peas, huckle-berries, dates, pecans, shrimp, turnip tops, whole wheat. |
Iodine | Sea foods and salt-water fish are the best sources of iodine, also iodized salt and cod-liver oil. |
Fats | Butter, cheese, nuts, cream, fat meats, poultry and fish, margarine, lard, fish canned in oil, cottonseed oil, corn oil, olive oil, cod-liver oil, avocado, egg yolk, chocolate, olives. |
Sugars | Sugar, molasses, honey, dried fruits, sweet chocolate, maple sugar and sirup, sorghum, jams, jellies, preserves, beets. |
And | Potato, sweet potato and yams, rice, corn, tapioca, cornstarch, arrowroot, all dried peas and beans, lentils, all grains, all floors, Jerusalem artichokes, winter squashes, pumpkin, okra, all nuts. |
Starches |
 
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