Quantity Cookery: Menu Planning and Cooking for Large Numbers

| | | | Salt |2 tbsp. | | | | Lemon juice |6 tbsp. | | | | Whites |48 | | | | Sugar |4-3/4 c. | | | | ----------------------+----------+------+--------+---------+---------- Mix the sugar, flour and cornstarch and add to the rapidly boiling water. When thickened add the egg yolks. Cook for a few minutes, remove from the fire and add the lemon juice and pineapple. Fill ten and three quarter inch shells, using two and one half cups of filling per pie. Cover with meringue and bake in a moderate oven. For method of making meringue see chocolate pie recipe. This recipe makes twenty-seven pies. Number of servings 216 Amount in one serving 1/8 pie Calories in one serving______ Cost of one serving______ PUMPKIN PIE FILLING ----------------------+----------+------+--------+---------+---------- INGREDIENTS |AMOUNT |WEIGHT|CALORIES|UNIT COST|TOTAL COST ----------------------+----------+------+--------+---------+---------- Sugar |5 c. | | | | Ginger |5 tsp. | | | | Cinnamon |6 tbsp. | | | | Cloves |2 tsp. | | | | Cornstarch |1/2 c. | | | | Salt |1 tbsp. | | | | Pumpkin, #10 can |1 | | | | Egg yolks |20 | | | | Milk, hot |4 qt. | | | | Egg whites |20 | | | | ----------------------+----------+------+--------+---------+---------- Mix the dry ingredients and add to the pumpkin. Beat the eggs, add the scalded milk and pour into the pumpkin and spices, and mix thoroughly. This fills ten, ten and three quarter inch pie shells, using three and one half cups per shell. Number of servings 80 Amount in one serving 1/8 pie Calories in one serving______ Cost of one serving______ BEVERAGES FRUIT PUNCH ----------------------+----------+------+--------+---------+---------- INGREDIENTS |AMOUNT |WEIGHT|CALORIES|UNIT COST|TOTAL COST ----------------------+----------+------+--------+---------+---------- Grated pineapple |1 qt. | | | | Lemon juice |1 qt. | | | | Orange juice |1 qt. | | | | Grape juice |1 qt. | | | | Tea infusion |2 qt. | | | | Water |2-1/2 gal.| | | | Sugar |2 qt. | | | | Mint leaves |1/2 c. | | | | ----------------------+----------+------+--------+---------+---------- Make a syrup of the sugar and