This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Price in first-class restaurants 10c to 15c additional each person.
Slice thinly enough onions to fill such a dish as is used to serve fried potatoes in. Put them into a small frying pan with a spoonful of lard or drippings, shut down with a plate or good lid and let cook in that manner until tender - 5 to 10 minutes then take off the plate and let the onions get light brown. Sprinkle with salt. Drain away the grease, if any left, and serve the onions on the meat in the dish.
Cost of material - the price of the onions and the detriment caused by the odor that prevades the establishment.
 
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