This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Oatmeal (3 cups raw near 3 qts, 7 cents.) Beefsteak (cooked 20, small, 21/2 lbs 35 cents.) Mutton chops (cooked 16, small, 2 lbs
30 cents.)
Cold meats (charged dinner.) Biscuits (made 45; 22 cents.) Potatoes (baked and saute, 10 cents.) Cakes assorted (21/2 lbs 25 cents.) Honey in comb (3 lbs 38 cents.) Milk, 21/2 gals 30, cream 20, bread and toast 12, butter, 11/2 lbs 30, coffee, tea, sugar 23 (115 cents.) Total $2 82: 43 persons; 61/2 cents a plate.
 
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