This section is from the book "Lessons In Cooking Through Preparation Of Meals", by Eva Robeeta Robinson. Also available from Amazon: Lessons in Cooking Through Preparation of Meals.
Farina With Stewed Prunes
Milk Toast Coffee
Toast slices of bread, cut about 3/4 inch thick; when brown cut diagonally across both ways.
Heat 2 c milk, add 1/2 t salt, dash of pepper, and 2 T butter. Arrange the toast in a hot vegetable dish and cover with the hot milk. Serve at once.
For Farina see Lesson 4; for Stewed Prunes Lesson 7.
Start the cereal to cooking, and heat the water for coffee. Heat the milk for toast in a double boiler. Grind and make the coffee. Toast the bread, add the salt, pepper and butter to the milk, and keep both hot until needed.
Serve the cereal with the prunes, which should have been cooked the preceding day, then the coffee and the milk toast.
 
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