Quantity Cookery: Menu Planning and Cooking for Large Numbers

hotels, with practically no changes in their menus from day to day. They are open to the same criticism as are the cafeterias that serve everything in the market at every meal, and so make their menu monotonous. Smaller tea rooms offer limited choices,--soups, relishes, hot dishes, vegetables, salads, breads and beverages. To add choices to a menu beyond the number which will satisfy the patrons is not economy. The longer the menu list, the more labor, equipment, food wastage and spoilage. Therefore the tea-room menu list should be as simple as is consistent with the demands of those to be served. The menus shown below are of the type which are changed from day to day. The first is a very good example of this type, embodying a moderate degree of choice. It is suitable for a tea room serving perhaps six hundred or more people daily. LUNCHEON[1] Iced Fruit Cocktail Tuna Fish Cocktail Celery Hearts Iced Grape Fruit Oyster Cocktail Grape Fruit & Mint Cocktail Button Radishes Olives SOUP Vegetable Soup Lamb Broth & Rice Oyster Stew Cream of Corn Soup Chicken & Tomato Puree MEATS, FISH, ETC. _French Bread, Hot Rolls, or Bran Muffins Served with these Orders_ Roast Chicken, Dressing, Mashed Potatoes and Gravy Creamed Sweetbreads on Toast with French Fried Potatoes Chicken Baked with Noodles in Casserole and Toasted Bran Muffins Fried Oysters with Chili Sauce and Baked Potato Broiled Tenderloin Steak with Sweet Potatoes Southern Style Breaded Veal with Browned Potatoes and Gravy Broiled White Fish with Lyonnaise Potatoes Cheese Omelet with Toasted Rolls and Preserves Rice and Salmon Box with Mexican Slaw Assorted Hot Vegetable Dinner VEGETABLES Apple Fritters Buttered Asparagus on Toast Fresh Spinach & Egg Candied Sweet Potatoes Baby Garden Beets Buttered or Creamed Peas Sautéd Egg Plant Home Baked Beans BREADS Hot Biscuits with Orange Marmalade Bran Muffins Toasted English Muffins Nut Bread Toasted Cheese Rolls Rye Bread & Swiss Cheese Sandwich French Bread Hot Home Made Rolls Hot Corn Bread SALADS Combination Salad Sweetbread Salad Shrimp Salad Club Salad Chicken Stuffed Paradise Peppers Tomato Stuffed with Cottage Cheese &