This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Bought 13 lots butter ranging 25, 20, 19, 15, 12 cents; average 19 cents-lbs 210 at 19, $39 90.
Bought lard 37 lbs at 14, $5 18.
Total, $45 08.
Table butter kept entirely separate; the consumption is a fraction under1/2 ounce each person each meal; when part butter and part lard is used for cooking and the whole butter and lard bill counted together, the consumption for all purposes averages a fraction under one ounce each person each meal and the cost is 11/8 cents each.
 
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