Now I shall tell her that
looking on is all very well, but it is not
equal to taking hold, and instead of sil-
ting at the door she may take upon her-
self to pick up something to make supper
for the guests whilst I make the wedding*
COOKING FOR PROFIT.
TS'^
cake.
940-A PScked-up Supper for Forty.
Oatmeal (3 cups raw near 3 qts, 7
cents.)
Beefsteak (cooked 20, small, 2j^ 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 (23^ lbs 25 cents.)
" Honey in comb (3 lbs 38 cents.)
Milk, 2^ gals 30, cream 20, bread and
toast 12, butter, i^ lbs 30, coffee, tea,
sugar 23 (115 cents.)✪ Packed-up Supper for Forty
Total $2 82 ; 43 persons; 6^ cents a
plate.
941— Wedding Cake.
2 pounds sugar — 4 cups.
1 54 pounds butter — 3 cups.
12 eggs.
2 pounds flour — 8 cups.
8 taplespoons wine ; same of brandy.
6 nutmegs grcund or grated.
5 pounds raisins.
4 pounds currants.
2 pounds crtron.✪ Wedding Cake
Stone the raisins, wash and dry the
currants, cut citron small, mix ihem and
dust with a cup of flour.
Mix the first four ingredients together
as if for pound cake, add the liquors,
nutmeg, and then the fruit.
Line the mould with buttered paper,
and wrap another paper around the out-
side and lie it with twine. Bake the
cake about three hours.
Made i large cake in a 6-qt milk pan,
weighs 14 pounds, and i small cake 4
pounds. Cost: sugar @ 8, 16; butter @
20, 30; eggs 15; flour @3^, 8; liquors
25; nutmegs 3; raisins @ 11, 55; cur-
rants @ 7, 28; citron @ 25, 50.
Total $2 30 for 18 pounds or 13 cents
a pound for material.
942— Cost of Ornamented Cakes.
The confectioners and caterers fol-
lowing a similar rule to the other em-
ployers of skilled labor, charge for the or-
namentation of a cake about double the
amount that they pay in wages for the
time consumed; if a man to whom they
pay three dollars a day consumes a whole
day in the elaborate decoration of a wed-
ding cake the charge of the ornamenting
alone will be about six dollars, and of the
cake complete perhaps ten dollars. The
same man may perhaps ornament a large
number of cakes at Christmas or New
Year's on each of which he will spend
but half an hour, and the i;rice will be
accordingly. The imported ornaments
upon a fine cake may very likely swell
the cost to twenty-five or fifty dojlars.
Wedding Breaktast.
Menu.
Fresh Peaches Sliced.
Boned Chicken with Truffles,
Tomatoes in mayonaise.
Ribbon Sandwiches,
Lamb Cutlets, a la Maintenon.
Potatoes Baden-Baden.
Partridge Souffles in Cases.
Dry and Buttered Toast.
White Coflee.
Ornamented Wedding Cake.
Delicate Cake. Apricot Ice Cream .
✪ Tomatoes in Mayonnaise
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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.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
Now I shall tell her that looking on is all very well, but it is not equal to taking hold, and instead of silting at the door she may take upon herself to pick up something to make supper for the guests whilst I make the wedding
cake.
940-A PScked-up Supper for Forty.
Oatmeal (3 cups raw near 3 qts, 7
cents.)
Beefsteak (cooked 20, small, 2j^ 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 (23^ lbs 25 cents.) " Honey in comb (3 lbs 38 cents.)
Milk, 2^ gals 30, cream 20, bread and toast 12, butter, i^ lbs 30, coffee, tea, sugar 23 (115 cents.)
Total $2 82 ; 43 persons; 6^ cents a plate.
941— Wedding Cake.
2 pounds sugar — 4 cups.
1 54 pounds butter — 3 cups.
12 eggs.
2 pounds flour — 8 cups.
8 tablespoons wine ; same of brandy.
6 nutmegs grcund or grated.
5 pounds raisins.
4 pounds currants.
2 pounds citron.
Stone the raisins, wash and dry the currants, cut citron small, mix ihem and dust with a cup of flour.
Mix the first four ingredients together as if for pound cake, add the liquors, nutmeg, and then the fruit.
Line the mould with buttered paper, and wrap another paper around the outside and lie it with twine. Bake the cake about three hours.
Made i large cake in a 6-qt milk pan, weighs 14 pounds, and i small cake 4 pounds. Cost: sugar @ 8, 16; butter @ 20, 30; eggs 15; flour @3^, 8; liquors 25; nutmegs 3; raisins @ 11, 55; currants @ 7, 28; citron @ 25, 50.
Total $2 30 for 18 pounds or 13 cents a pound for material.
942— Cost of Ornamented Cakes.
The confectioners and caterers fol-
lowing a similar rule to the other employers of skilled labor, charge for the ornamentation of a cake about double the amount that they pay in wages for the time consumed; if a man to whom they pay three dollars a day consumes a whole day in the elaborate decoration of a wedding cake the charge of the ornamenting alone will be about six dollars, and of the cake complete perhaps ten dollars. The same man may perhaps ornament a large number of cakes at Christmas or New Year's on each of which he will spend but half an hour, and the i;rice will be accordingly. The imported ornaments upon a fine cake may very likely swell the cost to twenty-five or fifty dollars.
Wedding Breaktast.
Menu.
Fresh Peaches Sliced.
Boned Chicken with Truffles,
Tomatoes in mayonaise.
Ribbon Sandwiches,
Lamb Cutlets, a la Maintenon.
Potatoes Baden-Baden.
Partridge Souffles in Cases.
Dry and Buttered Toast.
White Coflee.
Ornamented Wedding Cake. Delicate Cake. Apricot Ice Cream .
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