Cooking for Profit 1893

In this post the author Jessup White head gives an example of a meal and the cost of the various items.

Dinner.
August 18.
Soup—Consomme paysanne (7 qts 42 cents.)
Fried sunfish, a la Margate (string of 30 panfish, 5 Ib 40 cents."
Potatoes stuffed.
Sliced cucumbers, potato salad, olives (20 cents.)
Boiled leg of mutton, caper sauce (4 Ibs 55 cents.)
Roast beef (loin 4 Ibs 52 cents.)
Chicken pot pie (5 fowls 125, with trimmings, 140 cents.)
Small fillecs of beef a la Creole (2 Ibs and sauce, 30 cents.)
Virginia grated corn pudding (25 cents.)
Lima beans 7, mashed turnips 4, browned carrots 5, tomatoes 12, pctatoe^ 15 (46 cents.)
Steamed cabinet pudding (36 orders, 50 cents.)
Sweet potato pie (5 pies 43 cents.)
Vanilla ice cream (3'^ qts 75 cents.)
Cocoanut macaroons (same as No. 457; doubled, 26 cents.)
Apple, peaches, nuts, crackers, cheese (53 cents.)
Milk, cream 66, coffee, tea, sugar, bread, butter 53 (irg cents.)
Total, $8 13; 54 persons; 15 cents a plate.