Time Table For Baking

From a

Cookbook

Over 106 years old

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Biscuits............................................10 to 20 minutes

Bread...............................................40 to 60 minutes

Baked Beef - rare - 6 lbs.........1 hour & 10 minutes

Baked Beef well done...............1 hour & 30 minutes

Beef, braised........................................3 to 4 hours

Cake, Sponge..................................40 to 60 minutes

Cake, Fruit...........................................2 to 4 hours

Chickens, Tame Duck.................1 1/2 to 2 1/2 hours

Ducks (wild), Grouse......................25 to 30 minutes

Fish, thick........................................45 to 60 minutes

Fillet of Beef......................................20 to 30 minutes

Gems, Muffins, Thin Cakes..............20 to 30 minutes

Mutton, Lamb.................................1 1/4 to 1 1/2 hours

Puddings, Rice, Indian, Plum..............2 to 3 hours

Puddings, Custard.............................20 to 45 minutes

Pies......................................................30 to 40 minutes

Patties..................................................15 to 25 minutes

Potatoes...............................................30 to 45 minutes

Scalloped Dishes.................................15 to 30 minutes

Veal, Pork, Turkey.................................2 to 3 hours

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• Three loaves of Bread sliced thin for sandwiches is enough for thirty persons.
• One Gallon of Ice Cream will serve from twenty to twenty five persons.
• One Gallon of Brick Ice Cream will serve from twenty five tothirty persons.
• One pound of Coffee, two Eggs and six quarts of Water is sufficient to serve thirty persons.
• Allow two pounds of cut Sugar and a quart of Cream for the same.

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