This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
July 15.
Cold night. Rolls poor; no place in summer kitchen to keep dough warm. Cold enough for buckwheat cakes - wish we had some. Good time for mince pies - make sausag anyhow.
Oatmeal (3 cents.)
Beefsteak (7 orders, 1lb, and butter, 15 cents.)
Breakfast bacon (5 orders, 8 oz ross, 7 cents.) S
Crepinettes de veau (No. 636;12 orders, 1 1/2 lbs, one-third raw meat, 7 cents.)
Potatoes baked and French fried (9 cents.)
French rolls (18; 8 cents.)
Corn bread (fine, with 2 cups meal, 2 eggs, 10 ozs, butter, etc.; No. 599; 12 cents.)
Hatter cakes (1 qt, 7 cents.)
Butter 20, syrup 8, milk 12, cream 20, coffee, tea, sugar 17, bread 4.
 
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