Dry Toast. Milk Toast Buttered Toast. Chipped Beef with Cream. Oat Meal Mush. BROILED. Beefsteak, plain or with onions. Mutton Chops. Pork Chops. Breskfast Bacon. Ham. Veal Cutlets. EGGS. Boiled. Fried* Scrambled. Poached. Omelet. FRIETV Liver and Bacon. Codfish Balls. Fresh Fish. Mush. Sausage. Corned Beef Hash. POTATOES. Baked, Fried, Lyonaise, Stewed. In order to point out the the detriment these unchangeable breakfast cards are to the quality of the dishes served, here is a copy of one that was in use at a good two-doUar-a-day hotel. There are so many articles offered to the person at table, there are too many, but no more than rival houses offer and no more than is expected. It was a rule of that land- lord that nothing must be crossed off his bills. "Our list is so small," he would say, "that we cannot afford to drop even one dish from it."^ Consequently, although the meats might be cooked only as wanted there were many other articles that vvere necessarily prepared before- hand and by the usual contrariness of the luck when the corned beef hash, the com bread, codfish balls, or what-, ever else was fresh made, as good, as S3 COOKING FOR PROFIT. bright colored, as rich, as well flavored as It could be there would not be one order for it; but, when it had been put away, brought out again and warmed over, lost its first good quality and looked common and stale, then by the same blessed luck everybody in the dmmg- room would be seized with a desire to have some. Did we try another way and make only five codfish balls instead of twenty— determined not to have any left over— that very morning at least twenty- five people would call for codfish balls at once. But here at Uintah Lake we will not have any breakfast or supper bill and you shall see how we will make the cod- fish balls go, each one to its proper plate. Mr. Farewell's consultation, as it seemed to be, with the manager and the house-keeper wai only a pretense for the purpose of reconciling them to the daily task in store for one or other of them of writing in the blank menu for dinner, for he had long ago decided that point for himself and taken pride in selecting a handsome heading of fine type with flourishes, which announced that this was the dinner, on such a date, at The Eyrie, Uintah Lake, State of Cornuco- pia, John Smith Farewell, proprietor; Dinner. ROAST. SOUP. FISH. ENTREES. VEGETABLES. BOILED. PASTRY AND DESERT. Assorted Nuts. Raisins. Tea. Coffee. That is a copy of our blank bill-of- fare, as simple as could be made, having the ^ headings, and blank spaces for writing in. It seems, at first glance, that a number of stand-by dishes such as roast beef and mashed potatoes might as weU be printed in and save so much writing ; curiously enough, however, ex- perience shows that your boarders look only at the writing and you seldom get a call for anything that is in print. Let there be stewed tomatoes printed in place under the vegetable heading and one can will last a week, but write stewed tomatoes and you need two cans in one day. It should be all written or all printed. Breakfast. July 5- No oatmeal in house. Veal steaks (2 lbs, 26 cents.) Mutton steaks or rough chops (2 lbs, 22 cents.) Butter gravy for meats and eggs (6 oz, ✪ Broiled Mutton Chops

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Dry Toast. Milk Toast Buttered Toast. Chipped Beef with Cream. Oat Meal Mush. BROILED. Beefsteak, plain or with onions. Mutton Chops. Pork Chops. Breakfast Bacon. Ham. Veal Cutlets. EGGS. Boiled. Fried* Scrambled. Poached. Omelet. FRIED Liver and Bacon. Codfish Balls. Fresh Fish. Mush. Sausage. Corned Beef Hash. POTATOES. Baked, Fried, Lyonaise, Stewed. In order to point out the the detriment these unchangeable breakfast cards are to the quality of the dishes served, here is a copy of one that was in use at a good two-dollar-a-day hotel. There are so many articles offered to the person at table, there are too many, but no more than rival houses offer and no more than is expected. It was a rule of that landlord that nothing must be crossed off his bills. "Our list is so small," he would say, "that we cannot afford to drop even one dish from it."^ Consequently, although the meats might be cooked only as wanted there were many other articles that were necessarily prepared beforehand and by the usual contrariness of the luck when the corned beef hash, the com bread, codfish balls, or what-, ever else was fresh made, as good, as S3 bright colored, as rich, as well flavored as It could be there would not be one order for it; but, when it had been put away, brought out again and warmed over, lost its first good quality and looked common and stale, then by the same blessed luck everybody in the dining-room would be seized with a desire to have some. Did we try another way and make only five codfish balls instead of twenty— determined not to have any left over— that very morning at least twentyfive people would call for codfish balls at once. But here at Uintah Lake we will not have any breakfast or supper bill and you shall see how we will make the codfish balls go, each one to its proper plate. Mr. Farewell's consultation, as it seemed to be, with the manager and the house-keeper was only a pretense for the purpose of reconciling them to the daily task in store for one or other of them of writing in the blank menu for dinner, for he had long ago decided that point for himself and taken pride in selecting a handsome heading of fine type with flourishes, which announced that this was the dinner, on such a date, at The Eyrie, Uintah Lake, State of Cornucopia, John Smith Farewell, proprietor; Dinner. ROAST. SOUP. FISH. ENTREES. VEGETABLES. BOILED. PASTRY AND DESERT. Assorted Nuts. Raisins. Tea. Coffee. That is a copy of our blank bill-offare, as simple as could be made, having the ^ headings, and blank spaces for writing in. It seems, at first glance, that a number of stand-by dishes such as roast beef and mashed potatoes might as weU be printed in and save so much writing ; curiously enough, however, experience shows that your boarders look only at the writing and you seldom get a call for anything that is in print. Let there be stewed tomatoes printed in place under the vegetable heading and one can will last a week, but write stewed tomatoes and you need two cans in one day. It should be all written or all printed. Breakfast. July 5- No oatmeal in house. Veal steaks (2 lbs, 26 cents.) Mutton steaks or rough chops (2 lbs, 22 cents.) Butter gravy for meats and eggs (6 oz,

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