SC - Serving sizes

Thu Feb 3 00:28:07 PST 2000

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"Deborah J. Schumacher" wrote:

>  Just a quick question. I'm planning on serving Jazariyyah a lamb dish
> from Cariadoc and Elizabeth's Miscellany for one of the meals at
> Estrella. It calls for 2 lbs of lamb and assorted veggies (A little
> carrot and a little spinach) Any idea how many servings I could count
> this as? 4 ? 6? 8?  I'm also Serving cous cous, a cold yougurt and
> cucumber soup, and an undetermined vegetable plus a desert of rice
> pudding.                                 Just wondering. I was also
> looking at    Tuffâhiyya (apple Stew with Eggplants) from the
> Miscellany, but cant seem to find ground lamb here and i dont have a
> grinder.                                    ZoeGot Cuskeynoles?

Generally speaking you can plan on about 1/4 lb. of uncooked meat per
serving.  However, in the SCA, this seems to be a bit on the shy side.
Apparently, as a group we tend to eat a lot of meat.  As one fighter in
our household is fond of saying, "vegetables are what meat eats."

I have found that, and especially at war, meat goes about 1/3 - 1/2 lb.
per person depending on the nature of the group.  I recently served 90
lbs. of meat to 250 people, not quite 1/2 lb. apiece and a little more
than 1/3 lb. and we didn't have enough.

Bottom line, how big a meat eating group are you cooking for, and I
would tend toward at least 1/3 lb. (before cooking) each.

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Ld. Steffan of the Close (The Camp Cook)
(: The greatest preasure in life lies in doing that which people say we
cannot do :)

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"Deborah J. Schumacher" wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE> Just
a quick question. I'm planning on serving Jazariyyah a lamb dish from Cariadoc
and Elizabeth's Miscellany for one of the meals at Estrella. It calls for
2 lbs of lamb and assorted veggies (A little carrot and a little spinach)
Any idea how many servings I could count this as? 4 ? 6? 8?  I'm also
Serving cous cous, a cold yougurt and cucumber soup, and an undetermined
vegetable plus a desert of rice pudding.                                
Just wondering. I was also looking at    Tuffâhiyya
(apple Stew with Eggplants) from the Miscellany, but cant seem to find
ground lamb here and i dont have a grinder.                                   
ZoeGot
Cuskeynoles?</blockquote>

Generally speaking you can plan on about 1/4 lb. of uncooked meat
per serving.  However, in the SCA, this seems to be a bit on the shy
side.  Apparently, as a group we tend to eat a lot of meat. 
As one fighter in our household is fond of saying, "vegetables are what
meat eats."
I have found that, and especially at war, meat goes about 1/3 - 1/2
lb. per person depending on the nature of the group.  I recently served
90 lbs. of meat to 250 people, not quite 1/2 lb. apiece and a little more
than 1/3 lb. and we didn't have enough.
Bottom line, how big a meat eating group are you cooking for, and I
would tend toward at least 1/3 lb. (before cooking) each.
--
 Ld. Steffan of the Close (The Camp Cook)
 (: The greatest preasure in life lies in doing that which people say
we cannot do :)
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