Quantity Cookery: Menu Planning and Cooking for Large Numbers

by Lenore Richards; Nola Treat

Ingredients	Amount	Weight	Calories	Unit Cost	Total Cost
Sugar	2½ qt.
Butter substitute	3 c.
Egg yolks	8
Salt	1 tbsp.
Baking powder	¾ c.
Flour, pastry	4¼ qt.
Soda	5 tsp.
Milk	5 c.
Vanilla	2 tbsp.
Egg whites	14
Egg yolks	6
Milk	5 c.
Cocoa		12 oz.

Make a custard of the egg yolks, milk and cocoa, and cool. Cream the fat and sugar thoroughly, add the egg yolks, the chocolate custard and vanilla. Mix the dry ingredients and add alternately with the milk. Fold in the beaten egg whites. This amount will make ten two-layer cakes, nine and one fourth inches in diameter, each cake to be cut in sixteen pieces.

Number of servings 160
Amount in one serving 1 slice
Calories in one serving______
Cost of one serving______

SMALL CHOCOLATE CUP CAKES

Ingredients	Amount	Weight	Calories	Unit Cost	Total Cost
Chocolate		2 oz.
Butter substitute	3 tbsp.
Sugar	1 c.
Milk	½ c.
Flour, pastry	1 c.
Baking powder	2 tsp.
Eggs	2
Vanilla	1 tsp.
Nuts, chopped	1 c.

Melt the chocolate over hot water and add the butter substitute to it. Beat the eggs and add the sugar and vanilla and combine with the melted butter substitute and chocolate. Mix and sift the dry ingredients and add alternately with the liquid. Add the nuts last.

Number of servings 36
Amount in one serving 1
Calories in one serving______
Cost of one serving______

[**]FRUIT OATMEAL CRUMB COOKIES

Ingredients	Amount	Weight	Calories	Unit Cost	Total Cost
Sugar	5 c.
Butter substitute	2 c.
Eggs	6
Sour cream	3 c.
Cinnamon	2 tbsp.
Flour	1¾ qt.
Cake crumbs	¾ qt.
Oatmeal	1¾ qt.
Salt	1 tbsp.
Soda	1 tbsp.
Raisins	1½ qt.
Nuts	1 c.
Lemon juice	3 tbsp.
Mapleine	2 tsp.

Cream the fat and sugar. Add the eggs, sour cream, lemon juice and mapleine, and the well-mixed dry ingredients. Drop on a well-greased pan using two tablespoons per cooky and bake in a hot oven; or this mixture may be spread out on a sheet and when baked cut in squares or bars.