This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Italian soup (No. 613; 5 qts, 20 cents.) Boiled Mackinaw trout, pickle sauce (2 lbs, and sauce, 20 cents.) Roast beef (1 rib, 2 lbs, 25 cents.) Roast lamb (Nos 145, 146; 3 lbs, 35 cents.) Beet greens (from garden, worth 10 cents.)
Sweet corn (1 can, 15 cents.) Rice with cream (1/2 cup raw 2; seasoning 4 - 6 cents.)
Mashed potatoes (5 cents.)
Steamed raspberry pudding, hard sauce (Nos. 176 and 177; 21 cents.)
Chocolate butter pie (without eggs; No.
617; 3 large, 20 cents.)
Pickles, condiments, cheese, nuts, IIai sins, crackers average, 25 cents.
Butter 10, milk, cream 22, coffee, tea 10.
Total, $2 44; 25 persons; nearly 10 cents a plate.
 
Continue to: