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Cooking for profit

1886

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Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
cN? ^ao/.^-^ "^ I u TTwTV Boston ^ub^ v: Lib*^- COOKING FOR PROFIT, A New American Cook Book ADAPTED FOR THE USE OF ALL WHO SERVE MEALS FOR A PRICE. JESSUp WHITEHEAp. ;r^i< ^;o; i"J Y "Thhd'Ecnt'orr. cmcuftLca-o. JESSUP WHITEHEAD & Co., Publishers 1803. Entered according- to Act of Congress, Eb the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C» Right of Translation reserved. CONTENTS. PART FIRST— Some Articles for the Show Case. The Lunch Counter. Restaurant Breakfast, Lunches and Dinners. Hotel Breakfasts, Dinners and Suppers. Oyster and Fish House Dishes. The Ice Cream Saloon. Fine Bakery Lunch. Quaker Dairy Lunch. Confectionery Goods, Homemade Beers, etc. PART SECOND— Eight Weeks at a Summer Resort. A Diary. Our daily Bill of Fare and -what it costs. A Party Supper for Forty Cents per Plate. The Art of Charging Enough. A School Commencement Supper. Question of How Many Fires. Seven Fires for fifty persons vs. one fire for fifty. The Round of Beef for Steak. A Meat 'Block and Utensils. Bill of Groceries. A Month's Supply for a Summer Boarding House., ■with Prices. A Refrigerator Wanted. About keeping Provisions ; Restaurant Patterns. A Good Hotel Refrigerator. Cost of Ice to supply it. Shall we have a Bill of Fare? Reasons -why: a Blank Form. Is Fish Cheaper than Meat.? Trouble with the Coffee. How to Scrub the Kitchen. Trouble with Steam Chest and Vegetables. Trouble with the Oatmeal. Building a House with Bread Crusts. Puddings without Eggs. A Pastry and Store Room Necessary. A Board on a Barrel. First Bill of Fare. Trouble with Sour Meats. Trouble with the Ice Cream. The Landlord's Birth- day Supper. SJiotving how rich and fancy Cakes ivere made and iced and orna- mented -without using Eggs. The Landlady's Birthday Supper. Trouble in Planning Dinners. Trouble with Captain Johnson. Trouble in Serving Meals. Trouble with the Manager. Breakfasts and Suppers for Six Cents per Plate. Hotel Dinners for Ten Cents per Plate. Hotel Dinners for Seventeen Cents per Plate. Supper for Forty for Eight Cents per Plate. Breakfast for Forty for Nine Cents per Plate. An Expensive Wedding Breakfast, for the Colonel and the Banker's Daughter. Four Thousand Meals. Review. Groceries for 4,000. Meat, Fish and Poultry for 4,000. Flour, Sugar and Coffee for 4,000. Butter and Eggs for 4,000. Potatoes, Fresh Vegetables and Fruits for 4,000. Canned Fruits and Vegetables for 4,000. Milk and Cream for 4,000. Total Cost of Provisions for 4,000. How to Save Twenty Dollars per Week. How Much we Eat, How Much we Drink. How Much to Serve. Work and Wages. Laundry Work. Fuel, Light and Ice. Total Cost of Board. How Much Profit? How Many Cooks to How Many People? Boarding the Employes. Boarding Children. Meals for Ten or Fifteen Cents. Country Board at Five Dollars- If — a Bundle of Suppositions. Keeping Clean Side Towels. How Many Fires — Again. A Proposal to Rent for next Season. Conclusion. THE CONTENTS ALSO INCLUDE: ONE HUNDRED DIFFERENT BILLS OF FARE— Of Actual Meals, all with New Dishes ; the Amount and the Cost per Head. ELEVEN HUNDRED RECIPES.— All live matter that every Cook needs— both by Weight and by Cup and Spoon Measure. A DICTIONARY OF COOKERY— Comprised in the Explanations of Terms and General Information contained in the Directions. /kRTISTIC COOKERY.— Instructions in OrnamentaUon, with Illustrations, and