[Sca-cooks] Chicken-- cooked weight

[Johnna Holloway]

Bookfinder.com has a 1989 edition of Food for 50 for 24.95.
It's included in some versions of the Mastercook software program.
You'll have to check the boxes or entries to make sure it's in that
version or if that version works on your PC. Those can be cheaper than
buying the book.

You can also use
Chef's Book of Formulas, Yields, and Sizes
by Schmidt, Arno
Hardcover - 354 pages 2nd Edition, Published: March 2003
It's listed at Jessicas Biscuit as being $44.
Bookfinder has it as low as $33.

I used to browse textbook stores for these sorts of books.
They'd be returned/sold by students at the end of the semester.
Sometimes they'd be really cheap, especially if new editions were coming 
out.

Johnnae
(Happy St. Patrick's Day, by the way.)

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:

> snipped
> Most food-service cookbooks have a lot of this information in one  
> form or another, even if only in the form of a recipe for a dish  
> similar to the one you're cooking. For this, though, I'd recommend a  
> copy of "Food for Fifty", which is a little harder to find now, I  
> believe, than it used to be, and more expensive, but you might find a  
> copy used on Amazon for not too much.
> >>>>>>>>>
> Aww, Jayzuz, just checked, and the used copies on Amazon are  
> ridiculous, too... $60, USED???
> Okay, until you can find a copy, ask your questions here, I guess ;-)
> Or, check here:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/FOOD-FOR-FIFTY-Serving-Large-Groups-THIS-IS-A- 
> MUST_W0QQitemZ4622172022QQcategoryZ378QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewI 
> tem
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> Adamantius
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