TYPICAL GERMAN MEALS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1653, 21 December 1916, Page 4

TYPICAL GERMAN MEALS.

The Amorim 11 who has visited Berlin thus describes some typical days’ meals in Berlin. Ho says: — “My account for board and apartments, consisting' of a bedroom, small wrilingrootn, with use of the house telephone, was rather more than £3 weekly. Breakfast consisted of two fresh eggs, coffee —made probably of acorns, chicory, and burnt malt —or, as I could not stand this mixture, chocolate. A few weeks ago 1 had skimmed milk —latterly condensed milk; the equivalent of three small rolls of Oread made of potato, rye, and while wheat. It is not white bread, but it is quite good. The very limited butter allowance renders it necessary to eke out the butter ticket with jam, and to provide this jam the Government has commandeered root crops such as turnips, carrots, and plums, damsons, and apples. A significant fact, is that they are already eating this year's jam in Berlin. When I lunched at my rooms 1 had fish, cheese, bread, and the inevitable sardines. All kinds of freak foods are being brought in from the North. Seal meal is sold here and there, and polar bear, the latter at Is (id a pound. There is an abundance of food swimming about- 'in the Baltic, and the Germans are increasing their supplies of fresh-water lish, which have always been carefully conserved. When I lunched at a restaurant such as the Kheingold, I got hors d'oeuvres, consisting of sardines, potato and tomato salad (without oil), vegetable soup, lish, meat (half a pound of meat served only on production of meat ticket that is to say, the half-pound, which is weighed with bone and fat, and has to be extended over a period of seven days), cheese and fruit. There is no lack whatever id' wines, spirits and even some Scotch whisky, of which latter the supply at the Hotel Adlon is running out owing to the demands of German officers and travelling Americans, who are partial to it. Appearances are kept up at all hotels visi(ed by foreigners—partially by patriotic endeavours on the part of hotelkeepers and partly bv Government hints."