This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Oatmeal (3 cups raw, 4 cents.)
Broiled whitefish (4 lbs, net, and 1/4 lb, butter, 45 cents.)
Beefsteak (7 orders, 1 lb, loin net, 15 cents.)
Cold meats (8 orders, charged dinner.)
Potatoes (from dinner, and baked, 4 cents.)
French rolls (30; 12 cents.)
Waffles (No. 679; 3 qts, 24, and lard to bake 6; 30 cents.) Crackers and milk (crackers, 5 cents.) Cherries, fresh ripe (2 qts, 20 cents.) Cocoanut cookies (without eggs, and other cake, 15 cents.) Cream 30. milk 24, syrup 16, butter 20. Coffee, tea, sugar 22, bread 6. Total, $2 68; 34 persons; 8 cents a plate.
 
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