Cooking for profit

It does not really consume much lard or fat to fry in it, as the same can be used several times over if care is taken not to let it burn black, still, in counting the cost it has to be remembered that the pound of lard put in the frying pan becomes worse and darker with every frying and at last has to be thrown away. Cut the fish in pieces across without splitting it, if the full flavor of the fish is desired rather than the fried crust. Beat one or two eggs with half their bulk of water. Pepper and salt the pieces of fish well, dip them in the egg and then in corn meal, coat well by pressing, then drop into lard that is hissing hot and fry brown, allowmg 8 or 10 minutes for the fish to get done to the bone. Dredge a little fine salt and keep hot in a pan in the open oven until served To fry without using eggs, mix i cup of flour and 2 cups powdered crackers together. Dip the pieces of fish in milk, then in the mixture, coat well, dipping twice if necessary, and fry brown. (See Nos. 13, 98 and 314.) 551 Potatoes Plain Boiled. To go with hot fried fish there is no form of potatoes better than plain boiled. Pare them first and put on in salted water. When done drain off the water and serve the potatoes out of the saucepan as wanted. "Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, Roll!" Cold day for resort keepers. Fierce north-west gale been blowing all day. This green little two-mile lake has been trying to lash itself into a rage and swamped all the skiffs. Second lot of meat : Ham charged @ 15 cents. Mutton @ 10. Loin beef @ 12½. Rib roast beef @ 12^. Bacon @ 12^. Salt Pork @ 10. Liver @ 121^. Sweetbreads, 1 lb free. Some reduction in prices from former lot, but too high yet, and the loin has over five pounds of suet and waste fat and mutilated kidney in it, and they sent us no lamb. Breakfast. July 6. Oatmeal (3 cents.)' Ham broiled (6 slices, ii oz. net, equal to i lb gross, 15 cents.) Mutton chops broiled (11 chops, 2 lbs, 20 cents.) Poached eggs on toast (16 eggs, 20, and toast buttered 7 — 27 cents.) Broiled potatoes (few, and baked 12, 5 cents.) Batter Cakes (i qt. with 2 eggs, No. 403, 10 cents.) Syrup (10 cents.) Butter (average of many meals, 12 oz., 15 cents.) Milk and cream (average, 21 cents.) Coffee and tea (average, 5 cents.) French rolls (16, 8 cents.) $1 39; 20 persons, 7 cents a plate. 552- Cutting Up a Ham. One of the most serious calamities that ever befalls Mary Jane is the sending her a whole ham to cut up, all by herself: it is a calamity to the ham, too, when she has whittled it and hacked and torn it with her little case-knife that she tries to sharpen on the edge of the stove. Her reliance and the reliance of most private families is upon the butcher generally, to slice the ham before sending it, but in that case good ham is never as e;ood as it might be because it is cut too thick and being sawed through the bone irom one end to the other many of the slices are of such a sort that a little of it goes a lon;^ way. We have in our kitchen a meat block, a meat saw and a, small cleaver, besides good knives. These things are indispensable both for economy and good quality of the dishes we cook.