The dinner menus do not vary much. Soup made from meat stock is eaten
every week day except Wednesday, when there is roast meat and no soup.
On Sunday both soup and a roast are served. The meat from the soup is
served with a variety of sauces and gravies. Dumplings are used often
when Americans would serve potatoes. Rice and noodles are also used
instead of potatoes. Such vegetables as beans, spinach, carrots,
cabbage, kohl-rabi, sauerkraut, and salads are sometimes eaten with
the meat instead of the sauce with dumplings. The following are
typical menus:
Soup.
Meat with sauce and dumplings.
Apple sauce or preserves.
Coffee. Bread and butter.
Soup.
Meat with sauce and potatoes.
Stewed fruit.
Coffee with homemade raised tarts.
Soup.
Meat, beans, sauerkraut.
Apple sauce.
Coffee. Bread and butter.