[Sca-cooks] cheese for feast

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Nov 12, 2005, at 12:42 PM, Melissa Carter wrote:

> Here is a newbie type question.  If you are doing a feast for 85  
> people that
> will have three courses and you have cheese offered as part of the  
> first
> course along with leek soup and homemade bread, how much cheese  
> would you
> buy?  (It will be cubed by the way.)
>
> Thanks,
> Hedwig (Who will be shopping this afternoon and would appreciate an  
> answer
> soon)

With bread and soup, and all part of a first course, 8 pounds should  
be more than enough: it works out to about 1.5 ounces per person.  
Some people would eat more if it's placed in front of them, but it's  
not the cheapest food and you're serving other stuff.

Adamantius



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brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them  
eat cake!"
     -- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau,  
"Confessions", 1782

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