This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
August 10.
Soup - Consomme Knickerbocker (6 qts 30 cents.)
Lake trout stuffed (3 lbs and stuffing, 30 cents.)
Boiled ham (shank, 2 orders 5 cents.)
Roast chicken with currant jelly (4 hens, 32 orders no cents.)
Beef a la mode Allemande (3 lbs net and trimmings 45 cents.)
Braised mutton with nudels (2 briskets, 4 lbs and trimmings 40 cents.)
Summer squash 14, beets 4, cabbage 10, rice 3, corn 15, potatoes 15; (61 cents.)
Baked prune pudding (2 1/2 qts with sauce 28 cents.)
Custard pie (2 large, deep 24 cents.)
Blueberry pie (1 qt, 2 pies, large, thin 20 cents.)
Lemon ice cream (5 pts pure cream, sugar, flavor, freezing, makes 8 pts for 75 cents.)
Cakes, assorted kinds (2 lbs 20 cents.)
Nuts, raisins, cheese, crackers, pickles (average 42 cents.)
Milk, buttermilk 21/2 gals. 30, cream 1 qt 20, coffee 8, tea 4, butter 20. jelly 10, bread 8, sugar 8 (108 cents )
 
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