The following is a typical daily menu:
Breakfast
Hot Hash, or Hot Mush and Milk
Bread or Hot Biscuit
Coffee, and Sugar
Dinner
Hot Soup, or Roast Beef or Hash
One Vegetable, Bread
Coffee, and Sugar
Supper
Soup, or Irish Stew
Bread or Hot Biscuits
Tea, and Sugar
Meals were supplied to any person who was ready to pay cash or who possessed a meal ticket. The meal tickets were issued daily by the Red Cross and were redeemed by it by payment made to the contractor in cash or in kind from the relief supplies. The original plan was to serve ten-cent free meals with provision for granting an extra five-cent purchase to such persons as might be considered in need of extra food.
Certain kitchens within the Presidio reservation are not reported on later than July 11, when they were furnishing about 1,200 meals a day. One thousand meals a day would probably be a liberal estimate for the remainder of the time, thirty days, that these Presidio kitchens were to remain open, but such an estimate is not included in [Table 8].
TABLE 8.—MEALS SERVED BY HOT MEAL KITCHENS, FROM MAY TO OCTOBER, 1906, INCLUSIVE