This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
August 5.
Soup - consomme printanier royal (5 qts, 40 cents.)
Tomato salad (on table, 15 cents.)
Fillets of sheephead a la Horly (fish 2 lbs 24, batter frying, 20; 44 cents.)
Potatoes Julienne, corned tongue and cabbage (25 cents.)
Roast beef (1 rib, 11/2 lbs 20 cents.)
Loin of mutton (11/2 lbs 18 cents.)
Roulade of veal, Napolitaine (shoulder, 3 lbs 40 cents.)
Cutlets of minced chicken (21 orders, equal to 1 fowl 55, with trimmings, frying 55 cents.)
Poultry livers in potato croustades (filling charged previous meals, 10 crous-tades, 15 cents.)
Apricots, a la Colbert (30 orders, 1 can 25, rice, breading 26, sauce 4; 55 cents.)
Turnips, beans, corn, tomatoes, potatoes (45 cents.)
Preserved tomato tarts (8 saucer size, cut in three, 2 lbs tomatoes 20, crust 7; 27 cents.)
Lemon frozen custard (3 qts frozen, 60 cents.)
Cakes (charged other meals.)
Nuts, raisins, cheese, crackers, pickles (35 cents.)
Milk, buttermilk, cream (average 11/4 cents each person, 44 cents.)
Bread, butter, coffee, tea, sugar (40 cents.)
 
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