This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
August 14.
Soup - Consomme Colbert (5 qts 24 eggs 55 cents.)
Trout with Chili, Mexican style (4 lbs and sauce 50 cents.)
Potatoes Chilian.
Boiled ham (2 orders 4 cents.)
Roast beef (2 ribs 4 lbs 50 cents.)
Stuffed shoulder mutton, a la Soubise (3 lbs and trimmings 40 cents.)
Saute of chicken with rissotto (4 chickens and trimmings no cents.)
Kromeskies, a la Venitienne (16 orders 32 cents.)
New corn 20, string beans 3, onions in cream 5, turnips 3, rice 4, potatoes 15 (50 cents.)
Cream curd pudding (No. 538 increased, 38 cents.)
Potato cream pie (3 pies 30 cents.)
Bisque of pineapple ice cream (No. 206 with twice the cream to same fruit; 3 qts frozen 85 cents.)
Golden cake (20 cents.)
Blackberries and apples, cheese, nuts, pickles (45 cents.)
Milk 10 qts 30, cream 3 pts 30, coffee, tea, sugar, bread, butter 42 (102 cents.)
Total $7 11: 48 persons, nearly 15 cents a plate.
 
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