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Multiply: Create Large Quantity Recipes from Smaller Ones
It's not always easy to find great recipes for large groups. Or, perhaps you have your heart set on using Aunt Betsy's rum cake recipe or Uncle Joe's potato salad recipe although they only serve 8 or 10. Multiply! Any recipe can be multiplied... up to a point.
- As a rule, you can double or triple a recipe, but no more. Beyond that, complications arise and you don't have bowls and pots big enough anyway.
- When you do multiply a recipe, keep in mind that baking several dishes in the oven or baking in deeper dishes than a recipe calls for will increase baking time. Watch that oven like a hawk.
Divide and Conquer the Menu
What if doubling or tripling a recipe isn't enough?
- Make the recipe several times, if need be; caterers do. Especially if the recipe is complicated, you're much better off making the original recipe several times than trying to multiply it.
- This works: Prepare more than one entree, more than one dessert, more than one side dish. (Was that a "less is more" or "more is less" moment?)
- Test everything.
Large Quantity Recipes
Although there is more to feeding a crowd than just finding huge recipes, they sure come in handy. I'll be adding recipes of 25 servings or more to this list regularly.
Ginger Grilled Pork Tenderloin for 25 or 50
Muffaletta Sandwiches for 50
Easy Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes for 50
Sloppy Joes for 50
Chili for 50 or more
Trash Can Punch for 100
Wedding Punch for 12, 100...
No Baste Turkey for 25
Cooking for Large Groups: Tips and Charts
Help with large quantity recipes: Cooking Conversion Charts
Food Planning for Smaller Parties