Cooking for profit

Pickles 5 gals. Chow-chow 2 qt bot's Rice 12^ lbs Currants 10 lbs Vinegar 5 gals Cocoanut 5 lbs bulk not sweet @ 20 Gelatine 4 packages Codfish, boneless, 12 lbs Sardines 3 half boxes Prunes 5 lbs Citron 4 lbs Black pepper 2 lbs Tapioca 1^4 lbs Cornstarch 2 lbs Beans, navy 10 lbs Beans, dry Lima i^^ lbs Macaroni 7 lbs Soda, bakmg, i^ lbs Cracker meal, 4 lbs Honey, 8 lbs comb Oatmeal, 50 lbs Cracked wheat 10 lbs Corn meal, 33 lbs Graham, 8 lbs Pie fruits, 2 doz, 2-Ib cans IP ? Raisins table layer % box Cayenne pepper Worcestershire sauce i qt for cruets Chocolate i lb Mustard i lb Salt, table, 8 sacks Salt, rock, for freezing,- ^ bbl Vanilla extract, J^ pint Lemon extract, ^/^ pint Nutmegs, 2 ozs Spices, 5 sorts, 5 ozs Ginger, 2 ozs Cream tartar y^ lb Molasses, i gal Mustard, French, 2 bot's Barley, i lb Lobster, i can I SO I 20 I GO I GO I 00 I 08 t 1 00 2 50 SO 2, 50 S $106 46 Freight charges on above $3 06 cents, which m round numbers we tack on to the sugar, making all the sugar cost & cents a pound. 521— Cooking Tough Steaks. Supper. Cooked the better part of handsome young manager's tough beefsteak. First cut in two ounce pieces; pounded it both with back of cleaver and side until beaten out thin (it draws up thick again in cooking) drew out coals in front of fire and made the gridiron hot. Brushed both sides of steaks with brush, dipped in melted butter to prevent sticking to bars, broiled over the coals about three minutes. Ours are all "well-done" people, but must cook the steaks rare to be eatable, and then disguise them with gravy. 522— Beefsteak bravy. 524— Why the Codfish was Dark. Put in a pan, butter size of an egg, level teaspoon black pepper, little more of salt and two tablespoons water ; drop in the rare-cooked steaks and set the pan over the coals a minute or two. ^ The gravy that runs Irom the meat mingles with the rest and makes a rich gravy that many will like better than the meat itself. Oatmeal, i heaping cup when raw W^ lb, 2^ cents.) Beefsteaks twelve {V/z lbs, 19 cents; gravy, 2>^ cents.) Codfish in cream (^ lb codfish 5, milk and butter 2 — 7.) Potato cakes (mashed leftfrom dinner, 2 cents.) French rolls, thirty-five (3 lbs flour, etc.. 15 cents.) Milk (4 qts, 12 cents.; Butter \}/2. lb, 10 cents.) Coffee and tea (8 cents.) Cream to coffee and oatmeal (i pint, 10 cents.) Eggs, I order 3. 96 cents. 16 persons; 6- cents a plate. 523— Potato Cakes op Pats. "It is a pretty good supper bill-offare, but what makes the codfish in cream so dark?"