[Sca-cooks] Buying flour for bread

[kerrimart at mindspring.com]

the feast is for about 100 (15 tables of 6 plus the head table)

Here is my main menu (Still under construction): Suggestions/ comments
welcome.  I haven't been Head Cook for a LONG time...

1st remove:
Chicken Barley soup
Bread (fresh)
Cheese (considering Savory Toasted Cheese)

2nd Remove:
Pork Loin w/ carmelized roasted onions

Marinated Lamb roast - as alternate meat

Cold Cabbage Salad - recipe still under discussion
Spanish Mushrooms
Honey Carrots

3rd Remove:
Apple Torte (Rumpolt)
Stuffed Dates

I've been costing out at the Commessary, Costco and I might be able to order
some from a restraunt supply service (Sysco).

What do you think?
Lunch side board will be:
Summer Sausage
Hard Boiled eggs
apples
Bread
cheese cubes

Vitha

On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:33:42 -0600 "Decker, Terry D."
<TerryD at Health.State.OK.US> wrote:

> Okay.  Quick rule of thumb.  One level U.S. cup
> of sifted flour weighs about
> 4 ounces.  Unsifted about 5 to 6 ounces.
>
> If these are one pound loaves, I would estimate
> 15 pounds of flour.  If two
> pound, then probably 25 pounds of flour.  This
> should leave some extra flour
> for dusting the kneading surface, etc.  For
> this purpose, I would probably
> buy them in 5 pound bags, that way if you don't
> use all of the flour, you
> may have an unopened bag rather than an open
> one and if not, you don't have
> a lot of empty bag to store.  Look for a sale
> on the 5 pound bags and you
> can often get them cheaper than the equivalent
> larger bags.
>
> If you can do this in two batches, you're
> looking at about seven hours
> elapse time of which four to five can be spent
> on other tasks.
>
> How many in the feast?
>
> Bear
>
> > I did plan on measuring the dry weight of the
> flour/ etc. to
> > get the weight of
> > each ingredient.
> >
> > I plan on making 17 loaves of a simple french
> bread (my Baker
> > has the recipe).
> >  I'll post it later.
> >
> > I would like to try to make the bread the day
> of the event (I
> > work full time,
> > so can't do it friday).  Any suggestions?
> >
> > vitha
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