THE KAISER'S FARE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2430, 8 April 1915, Page 7

THE KAISER'S FARE

—«, SIMPLE LIVING FOR THE WAR LORD. "To live like a king" is a phrase that no longer signifies in Prussia an enviable height of luxury, with plenty of good things to eat and drink. The Emperor and Empress always have eaten simply, in comparison with many wealthy Germans, but ' the war has made the bill of fare at court still simpler. As early as November the so-called "K-bread"—rye bread with an admixture of potatoes—was introduced at court, and since then has been used daily. When the commander-in-chief of the Mark Brandenburg issued some weeks ago a prohibition of night baking, fresh rolls immediately were banished from the Imperial breakfast-table, both at the royal palace and at Monbijou Palace, where the Empress is at present living. An egg, some warmed up rolls, and tea or coffee form the breakfast of the Empress. At one o'clock in the afternoon there are soup and a fish or vegetable course. The evening meal contains one meat; generally one vegetable, and potatoes, usually served in their jackets. Often, however, only cold meat and potato salad are served.

This menu is but slightly altered when the Emperor returns from headquarters. The chicf change consists in a thick soup, of which he is very fond. Overeating, Prof. Karl Oppenheimer recently said in a lecture, had become, as it were, a sport among largo circles of the German people, including the better-situated workmen and the middle classes. Unnecessary meals have been included in the day's programme, and people have become accustomed to this overeating, so that hunger is no longer a measure of the amount it is neccssary to efit. He advocates not more than three meals a day. Thn cry for three meals a day instead of five, and the saving of 40 per cent, in food consumption, will not he popular, however,, with a certain class of gourmands who are dissatisfied with the allowance of four and a half pounds of bread per week.