The housewife who is anxious to dress no more meat than will suffice
for the meal, should remember that beef loses about one pound in four
in boiling, but in roasting, loses in the proportion of one pound five
ounces, and in baking about two ounces less, or one pound three
ounces; mutton loses in boiling about fourteen ounces in four pounds;
in roasting, one pound six ounces.