[Sca-cooks] cheese for feast

[JPC]

Greetings Hedwig,
This is actual a good question for a number of reasons but I am going to 
focus on just one question.

How many oz. of food are you planning per person?

In my experience 20-25 oz. of food is about what people will eat on average. 
Fighters can eat more, kids eat less... it averages out. (I will use 22.5 as 
an average value below)

with 3 courses you have at least 10 dishes correct? (The following assumes 
10 dishes)
(22.5 oz/person) / (10 person/dish) = 2.25 oz/dish for each person
That amount of cheese will produce leftovers at some tables.

This amount, 2.25 oz, could be divided into two. A cheap 
cheese($1.99 -$3.99/lb.) and an expensive cheese ($5.99/lb.+) say in a 70/30 
split. The small eaters will eat what they like and the big eaters will 
everything else. This is a good way to add an expensive 'nice' cheese 
without breaking the bank.

This is just the one way of 'guessing' how much to buy and portion for 
feasts. There are others and I would love to hear how they do their 
planning.

Christopher

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Melissa Carter" <homefrogs at houston.rr.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:42 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] cheese for feast


> 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)
>
>
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