Packed-up Supper for Forty

Name: Packed-up Supper for Forty
Yield: 24 servings
Ingredients: Oatmeal (3 cups raw near 3 qts, 7 cents); Beefsteak (cooked 20, small, 2½ 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 (23½ lbs 25 cents); Honey in comb (3 lbs 38 cents); Milk, 2½ gals 30, cream 20, bread and toast 12, butter, 1½ lbs 30, coffee, tea, sugar 23 (115 cents)

From Cooking for profit, 1886

Serves 24

Total cost: $2.82 for 43 persons; 6½ cents a plate.

Presented as published in 1886. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 284. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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.)

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