Quantity Cookery: Menu Planning and Cooking for Large Numbers

|WEIGHT|CALORIES|UNIT COST|TOTAL COST ----------------------+----------+------+--------+---------+---------- Milk |2 gal. | | | | Eggs, whole |30 | | | | Egg yolks |15 | | | | Sugar |3 c. | | | | Vanilla |3 tbsp. | | | | Salt |2 tsp. | | | | Nutmeg |2 tbsp. | | | | ----------------------+----------+------+--------+---------+---------- Scald the milk. Add the eggs, sugar and vanilla, beaten together. Fill the pie shells and sprinkle the nutmeg over the top. Bake in a slow oven. This recipe makes twelve, ten and three quarter inch pies, using three and one half cups per pie. Number of servings 96 Amount in one serving 1/8 pie Calories in one serving______ Cost of one serving______ LEMON PIE FILLING --------------------+---------+---------+--------+---------+---------- INGREDIENTS |AMOUNT |WEIGHT |CALORIES|UNIT COST|TOTAL COST --------------------+---------+---------+--------+---------+---------- Water |8 qt. | | | | Sugar |5 qt. | | | | Cornstarch |1/2 qt. | | | | Flour |1-1/2 qt.| | | | Salt |2 tbsp. | | | | Egg yolks |48 | | | | Butter substitute | |1-1/2 lb.| | | Lemons, grated rind | | | | | and juice |20 | | | | Egg whites |48 | | | | Sugar |4-3/4 c. | | | | --------------------+---------+---------+--------+---------+---------- Mix the sugar, flour and cornstarch and add to the rapidly boiling water. When thickened, add the fat and egg yolks. Cook for a few minutes, and when removed from the fire add the lemon juice and grated rind. Put two and one half cups to each ten and three quarter inch pie shell and cover with meringue and brown in oven. For method of making meringue see chocolate pie recipe. This recipe makes twenty pies. Number of servings 160 Amount in one serving 1/8 pie Calories in one serving______ Cost of one serving______ PINEAPPLE PIE FILLING ----------------------+----------+------+--------+---------+---------- INGREDIENTS |AMOUNT |WEIGHT|CALORIES|UNIT COST|TOTAL COST ----------------------+----------+------+--------+---------+---------- Pineapple, #10 cans |3 | | | | Juice and water |9 qt. | | | | Sugar |5 qt. | | | | Cornstarch |2 c. | | | | Flour |1-1/2 qt. | | | | Yolks |48