This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Lake trout, baked, gravy, (2 lbs, 20 cents.)
Veal pot pie (meat, 24, crust, 4 - 28 cents.)
Potatoes mashed, browned (5 cents.)
No other vegetables in house.
No butter in house.
Cherry pies (2 with 1 can cherries, 14; crust, 4; sugar, 2 - 20 cents.)
Cottage pudding, hot cream sauce (2 lbs, 20 cents.)
Milk, cream, coffee, tea (26 cents.) $1 19; 20 persons, 6 cents a plate.
That meal used up last of first lot of meat except sweetbreads reserved.
Bought jar fresh butter at neighboring creamery at 20 cents a pound. Bought canned goods at country store.
 
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