Orange Slices
Scrambled Eggs and Toast
Coffee
Nothing wrong with a meal like that one. Here's the menu for today:
Applesauce
Graham Muffins
Hard-cooked Egg
I substituted some of my Graham Muffins - they've been in the freezer since last week - for the Oatmeal Gems that were actually on today's menu. I was curious as can be to try the new recipe, but thrift won out and I decided to eat up some of my leftovers instead. As far as I can tell, the Oatmeal Gems are a biscuity type of muffin with oats sprinkled inside. I haven't noticed any differences in these menus at the front of my cookbook except that there are more baked goods in these menus. Which makes sense. The author is trying to interest her readers in some of her recipes. The very next menu features a whole new recipe altogether! I think I'll stick with today's menu one more time and try to free up some space in the freezer.
Once I've finished experimenting with this first run through the menus, I'm going to revisit that "reducing" plan I found in a '40s magazine. I'll save the baked goods for an occasional treat - once a month instead of once a week! - and take up those vintage serving sizes more rigorously. It'd be loverly if The Experiment had some benefits for my waistline, too!
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Suzen
First off, I love that they are called gems. Yesterday at the local book store I was looking through the reprint of the earlier version of my Better Homes and Gardens cookbook. In that they mention, under muffins, how "our mothers and grandmothers called them gems".
Concerning waistlines, I want, no I NEED to lose some weight this year. So, when we have hot cereal for breakfast I have a small bowl and black coffee. When I serve bacon eggs the whole nine, I have one piece of dry toast and black coffee. This seemed to be the 1955 equivalent of dieting.
By the bye I am going to try the fried mush tomorrow.
I really wonder if the ladies were actually very trim, or having it all squeezed in by their girddles? I'd love to know how they found the time to say nice a petite along with everything else they had going on!
Of course, when you see the way some our current society dresses, you kind of wish the girddle would come back in style, right? ;0)
If you figure out that waistline thing, let me know!
I would think that the extra work of using a wringer washer, hanging out clothes, kneading bread, washing dishes by had, etc... would help burn off some extra calories.
Haven't some of you commented that when you wear girdles you tend to eat less because otherwise it gets uncomfortable?
I think portion sizes have a huge part to do with why we have collectivly gotten larger over the decades. When you get to "reducing", would you post about what your cookbook recommends?
BTW, I'm enjoying reading your blog!
yeah, i think they ate much smaller portions...
Suzen, thanks so much for your lovely comment...
50s gal, I had no idea that muffins were once called gems! That certainly gives some context to the name on that recipe.
The trouble with girdles is that though it might cinch your waistline, those extra inches have to go somewhere. (Darn physics!) Bigger women with girdles often end up with a larger bustline than they'd have without 'em. Emer, I'm not sure I'll ever figure out the waistline thing, but judging from your picture in your darling new dress, you have nada to worry about!
All this extra housework has got to burn some calories. And the non-automated stuff would've done an even better job in the '40s. (Rations probably helped, too!)
Gingerella, I'm going to post this again, but here's a link to my last post on the diet breakfast suggestions:
http://destination1940.blogspot.com/2008/12/are-you-eating-to-reduce.html
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