This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
July 11.
Oatmeal (3 cents.)
Salmon trout, breaded and fried (15 orders, 4 1/2 lbs, gross, 36; 2 eggs to bread
3; cracker meal 2; lard to fry equal to 1/2 lb, loss, 6 - 47 cents.) Beefsteak (8 orders, 1 lb, net, 20 cents.) Breakfast bacon (4 orders, 1/2 lb,6 cents.) Potatoes German fried (6 cents.) Corn bread (No. 599; 11 cents.) Biscuits (24, 15 cents.) Batter cakes [cheapest, 1qt, 7 cents.] Syrup 10, butter 15, milk, cream 22, coffee, tea 7. Total, $1 69; 25 persons; nearly 7 cents a plate.
 
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