2025 Christmas Feast Planning

December meal for the church: Tatiana has been recruiting more guests – 120 people. Maybe Tudor.

  • Gwyn and Gobban are providing bread.
  • Brigida is making a bunch of chicken and barley stew, honey butter
  • Stasi – Pork? Food cards/labels?
  • Sofya will do Armored Turnips, Cold Spiced Beet Soup (Cold Sweet Borscht)
  • Brighid doing a desert (rice pudding) and an appetizer.
  • Juliana making marzipan table subtleties.
  • Avelyn and Randal making wassail to drink.

Menu:

  • At Table: Breads, butters, marzipan subtleties, Brighid’s appetizer (something tangy?)
  • Main Dish/es: chicken and barley stew, something pork from Stasi?
  • Sides: armored turnips, cold sweet borsch
  • Desserts: marzipan subtleties (mini apples, grapes, pears, walnuts), rice pudding
  • Beverages: wassail, others?

Lunch Portions per Person

  • Salad: 1 cup salad per person as a side and 3 cups salad per person as a main entree
  • Soup: 8 to 10 ounces of soup per person
  • Sandwiches: 1 whole sandwich per person
  • Pasta: 6 to 8 ounces of pasta per person

Dinner Portions per Person

  • Meat and Fish: 4 – 6 ounces of protein per person, 6 – 8 ounces of protein for buffets or barbecues
  • Starches: 4 – 6 ounces of starches (like rice, pasta, or potatoes) per person
  • Vegetables: 4 – 6 ounces of vegetables per person
  • Salad: 1 cup salad per person as a side and 2 cups salad per person as a main entree
  • Bread: 1 – 2 rolls or slices of bread per person

Dessert Portions per Person

  • Cake: 1″ x 2″ (!) slice per person for a single-layer cake and 1″ x 1″ to 1″ x 2″ slice (!) per person for a layer cake
  • Cupcakes: 1 standard cupcake per person and 2-3 mini cupcakes per person.
  • Cookies: 1 to 2 cookies per person
  • Pies and Tarts: 1 slice per person or 1 individual tart per person
  • Dessert Bars: 1 to 2 brownies or blondies per person

Special supplies:

  • Labels for the buffet, ingredient lists/recipes, program?
  • Crock pots for Brighid’s rice pudding
  • Casseroles for Sofya’s armored turnips – twenty 9×9 casseroles or thirteen 9×13 casseroles