This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Cut smoked and dried salmon in broiling slices and steep in water for half a day. Dry the slices on a cloth, brush with butter and broil about 5 minutes.
Breakfast for Forty.
August 10.
Fresh huckleberries (2 qts 24 cents.)
Summer apples (10 pents.)
Oatmeal and hominy grits (3 cups makes 3 qts, 7 cents.)
Beefsteak (18 orders, 2 1/4 lbs net and butter 45 cents.)
Mutton chops (9 orders, 1 1/2 lbs, 18 cents.)
Ham (9 orders, 1 lb net, 15 cents.)
Eggs any style (3 dozen 45 cents.)
Codfish balls ( 18 with 1 1/2 lbs fish etc. 24 cents.)
Fried mush (4 orders 4 cents.)
Potatoes baked, and a la Francaise (10 cents.)
Muffins (No. 582; 18, 14 cents.)
French rolls (30, 12 cents.)
Corn batter cakes (1 qt 9 cents.)
Milk 2 gal. 24, cream 2 qts 40, butter 1 1/4 lbs 25, syrup 8, coffee 8, tea 2, chocolate 8, bread 4, sugar 12 (131 cents.)
Total $3 68; 40 persons; little over 9 cents a plate.
 
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