In her front room she displayed angel food, raisin tarts, fudge, cake, warm sugared crullers, and puddings. She put out posters informing the public that warm biscuits, muffins, roast chicken, meat loaf and salads would be prepared to order.
She was successful in establishing a first-class, paying bakeshop around the original idea of a chafing dish.
PLAN No. 404. CRYSTALLIZED FRUITS AND NUTS
Nothing is more delicious or more profitable to put up for sale than crystallized fruits and nuts, and a young woman in California, who went into the business on an extensive scale, had that discovery fully confirmed. Her recipe for the crystallization of dainties was as follows:
Put in an iron kettle 1 teacupful of granulated sugar, 1 tablespoonful or less of butter, 3 tablespoonfuls of water. Boil until it syrups and becomes brittle.
The fruits and nuts treated with this were put into the shells of the same, or into boxes containing the name of the delicacy and her own name as originator. Making up a quantity she placed them on sale at the woman’s exchange where they sold rapidly at a good profit. She also had many calls for them to be used on special occasions, such as St. Valentine’s Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, birthdays, weddings, etc., and for these purposes she charged very high prices, for she knew they were well worth all she asked for them, and were all the more appreciated.
In a short time she received many orders and found it was necessary to employ a number of young ladies as skilful assistants. Her profits the first year were sufficient to pay for a neat little bungalow she had always admired, and which is now her home.
PLAN No. 405. SHELLING AND SELLING NUTS
A Texas man makes an excellent living by gathering pecans and nuts of all kinds that grow in immense quantities in his neighborhood, and shelling them with a machine invented for that purpose. A bushel of the nuts, when shelled, make fourteen or fifteen pounds of the meats or kernels, and he sells them to people in the city at prices that net him between $5 and $6 per bushel. And considering that he handles several hundred bushels of the nuts in a single season, one may judge as to the amount of his net profits.