This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
The common term for a steak of no particular cut. Price in restaurants from
25c down to 15c, including baked, boiled or saute potatoes, bread, butter and seasonings.
A pound of round steak as cut by the butchers divided in three makes 5-ounce steaks, all meat, of a size sufficient for an ordinary meal. Beat them out a little with the side of the cleaver and fry instead of broiling them with the scraps of fat in the same pan.
Cost of material - with round steak at 12c - meat 4, 1 potatoe 1/2c cruet condiments 1/2c bread 2, butter 2; 9c. With rough steak at 8c, lc per order less, or ft large steak of 2 orders to the pound.
 
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