SC - How much to cook?

[Jenne Heise]

Thanks to everyone who helped out with my previous dayboard question.

Thinking it over, we decided to go with bread, veggies, apples, dried
fruit, and cubed protein on toothpicks with sauces. (In keeping with the
embroidery theme I thought using some of the different colored sauces
would be cool.) The Cubed protein would be cheese, pickled eggs (if I can
get the recipe for the great pickled eggs that someone brought to the
Pennsic gathering), roast chicken and roast beef. This is to feed 50
people or so. 

However, I'm stuck on how much cheese, beef and chicken to get. I figure 5
dozen small eggs will be plenty (I can get 2.5 doz for $1.55 locally, so
I'm not worried about spending too much.)
The rule of thumb is 1/4 to 1/2 lb of meat per person, but that is for
mixed groups. I suspect that being as it is an embroidery collegium, the
attendees are going to be mostly women.

Modern women tend to eat less meat, and less red meat, that I know.
So I thought 10 lbs of chicken (bone in). But I don't want to get more
beef than I have chicken! I would get 10 lbs of cheese, but is that
enough?

(Somehow, I never realized how different it is to serve for only 50,
rather than dayboards for 300-700!)

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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