This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Use the very small individual cream-pitchers that hold only 2 tablespoonfuls and serve one with each cup of coffee.
With this careful apportionment it is often found practicable to procure cream enough for the purpose where otherwise the serving of real cream could not be attempted.
Cost of coffee with cream and sugar - with coffee at 20c., and - 1/2 ounce or a tablespoon to each cup, and 2 teaspoons or 1 ounce sugar and 2 tablespoons cream to each cup, and cream 90c, gall. - cof-fee 5, cream 1/2 pt, 6., sugar 5; 16c, for 8 cups or 2c a cup for material.
 
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