This section is from the book "Scientific Feeding", by Mrs. Dora C. C. L. Roper. Also available from Amazon: Scientific feeding.
Apple salad with lettuce finely chopped, onion and mayonnaise dressing, bacon and crusts.
Portion of food containing calories
Apple | 1 medium | 72 |
Lettuce | 1/8 head | 5 |
Onion | 1/4 piece | |
Oil | 4 tablesps. | 100 |
Lemon or vinegar | About 2 teasps. | 4 |
Yolk of egg | 1 | 48 |
Bacon | .2 ounces | 325 |
Crusts | .2 | 50 |
604 |
Clear soup with rice and egg. One lamb chop with sprouts, and one triscuit with butter.
1 cup | IOO | |
Rice (measured before soaking) | 2 tablesps. | IOO |
Yolk of Egg | 1 | 48 |
Lamb chop | 1 small | IOO |
Sprouts | 1/2 cup | 20 |
1/2 cup | 135 | |
Triscuit | 1 | 35 |
Butter | 1 teasp. | 35 |
573 |
One large glass of buttermilk, kumyss, peptonized hot milk or Dr. Metchinikoff's sour milk, with one slice of graham toast.
Milk | 12 ounces | 247 |
Graham toast | 1 large slice | 100 |
347 |
Raw cranberries and celery with olice oil, one slice of graham or whole wheat toast with butter and unsweetened black malt coffee.
Cranberries | 1/4 cup | 10 |
Olive oil | .2 tablesps. | 100 |
Toast | 1 large slice | 100 |
Butter | 1 tablesp. | 105 |
Raw Celery | .2 stalks | 16 |
331 |
 
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