Cooking for profit

There is a most excellent white cocoanut mixture at No. 163; but takes up more time than this to make. For this proceed as if making custard pie, using all whites and counting 2 whites equal to one egg; which will be: 3 cups milk. I cup white of eggs — 10 or 12 whites. y^ cup sugar. I heaping cup cocoanut. I teaspoon lemon extract. Beat up, fill 2 paste-lined pie pans and bake slowly. Meringue (or frost) them over when they are nearly done ; stirring in a little raspberry syrup to color the frosting pink and dredge granulated sugar on the surface before baking. 678 — Trouble with the Ice Cream. A little party of four ladies from the Rural House came over in a boat immediately after dinner. Wanted to know of the manager whether really and truly, you know, we have ice ex earn every day. Said they never were so disappointed; the Rural only makes ice cream once a week, that is on Sunday, and after all when it was made it proved to be only frozen buttermilk full of lumps of butter. These four are the elders remaining of the party that came over serenading about ten days ago. They have taken rooms and will move over before supper. I know how that ice cream trouble occurred; saw the same mishap at Basswood City. There was a young fellow of a too sanguine disposition struggling along with a restaurant that did not pay, buoyed up by the visions of wealth he was going to realize during the approaching summer by making ice cream. Being consulted, I advised the purchase of only one freezer, or, if he must have two, to get a 4-quart and a 6-Quart size. Young man thought I was surely jesting and sent off for a 4-gallon and a 10-gallon. On the first balmy day that foretokened the arrival of gentle spring he invited all his acquaintances to a treat of the first luscious ice cream of the season; his own make ; the first he had ever made,and after all it proved a delusion and lor him a mortification that he never recovered from. It was buttermilk and butter frozen. Such a thing could not happen to a person who might not care whether the ice cream were not good or indifferent, but this party was too solicitous, whipped or churned the cream to make It foamy, and increase the bulk when the temperature was just right for "butter to come" quickly. If the young man had had freezers to buy that afternoon he would have been content with a i -quart and a 2-quart, for he took a^ sudden disgust at the ice cream business. Pour your cream into the freezer, sweeten and flavor it and freeze without further preparation, but after it is frozen then the more it is beaten the better it will be and "butter won't come'' at that temperature. Supper. Oatmeal {3 cups raw, 4 cents.) Broiled whitefish (4 lbs, net, and H lb, butter, 45 cents.) Beefsteak (7 orders, i 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 t6, butter 20. Coffee, tea, sugar 22, bread 6. Total, $2 68; 34 persons; 8 cents a plate. 679— Waffles— Yeast Raised. 6 cups fiour — i^ nounds.