s not counted, since in this case
most of the cream had been removed, and its cost reckoned at the entire
cost of the milk itself, or twenty cents a quart, allowing four quarts
of milk at five cents a quart for one quart of cream.
BILLS OF FARE.
BREAKFAST
Fresh Apples
Toasted Whole-Wheat Wafers
Rolled Wheat with Cream
Grape Toast
Whole-Wheat Puffs
Toasted Wafers
Baked Sweet Apples
Stewed Prunes
Cream
Hot Milk
_Cost:_
Apples (fresh and baked), one half peck, 10c.;
one lb. rolled wheat, 5c.;
one and one half lbs. zwieback for toast, 15c.;
one pint of canned grape pulp for toast, 12c.;
puffs (for which beside milk, three eggs at 25c. per doz., and one and
one half lbs. whole-wheat flour at 5c. per lb. were used), 14c.;
two and one half lbs. of California prunes, 37c.;
two qts. cream, an amount quite sufficient for moistening
the toast and supplying a small cream cup for each individual, 40c.;
two lbs. of toasted whole-wheat wafers, 20c.
--making the entire cost of breakfast $1.53, or
exactly nine cents per person.
DINNER
Lima Bean Soup
Baked Potato with Cream Sauce
Scalloped Vegetable Oysters
Graham Grits
Whole-Wheat Bread
Whole-Wheat Wafers, Toasted
Canned Cherries
Citron Apples with Whipped Cream
Cream
Hot Milk
_Cost:_
One and one fourth lbs. Lima beans, 9c.;
one half peck of potatoes, 12c.;
one lb. Graham grits, 5c.;
1 loaf whole-wheat bread, 10c.;
2-1/4 lbs. whole-wheat wafers, 23c.;
canned cherries, 25c.;
apples and citron, 10c.;
3 bunches vegetable oysters, 15c.;
cream (1 cup for the soup, one for the cream sauce, and one for whipped
cream, beside three and one fourth pints for individual use), 50c.;
flour and sugar for cooking, 10c.
Total, $1.69--a little less than ten cents each.
BREAKFAST NO. 2
Bananas
Oatmeal
Gravy Toast
Graham Gems
Toasted Wafers
Apple Sauce
Cream
Hot Milk
_Cost:_
1 1/2 doz. bananas, 45c.;
toast, 15c.;
cream for gravy, 5c.;
material for gems (Graham flour, milk,
and a small portion of cream), 8c.;
apple sauce, 10c.;
wafers, 20c.;
cream for individual use, 30c.;
sugar, 5c.
Total, $1.46, or a trifle more than
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