This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Pure good ripe apples and slice them into a bright saucepan. Add water enough to come up level with the apples and stew with a lid on till done - about thirty minutes. While they are stewing throw in a little butter. Mash at last with the back of a spoon. No sugar.
Cost of material - 10 pound pig $2,00, stuffing 10, apple sauce 7; $2,17 - say for 20 to 25 orders not less than 10c per dish.
Note - Pigs often cost a much larger amount than their weight at 20c per pound would be, five dollars being often obtained at Christmas and other holiday seasons. The number of dishes is somewhat dependent upon skill in carving. In any case, however, this is an expensive dish.
 
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