Allowances of Supplies for an Entertainment

Name: Allowances of Supplies for an Entertainment
Ingredients: one quart of oysters to every three persons present; ten pound turkey boiled; one gallon of ice cream to every twenty guests; ten quarts of jellies; one gallon of cream; three persons present; five chickens; one hundred; one hundred guests; three chickens; one hundred pickled oysters; two molds of char- lotte russe; four dozen biscuits

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription

By Goff, May Perrin, [from old catalog] ed · From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 13 ingredients

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Allowances of Supplies for an Entertainment

Ingredients

Directions

Allow one quart of oysters to every three persons present. Five chickens (or what is better, a ten pound turkey boiled and minced) and fifteen heads of celery, are enough for chicken salad for fifty guests ;
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one gallon of ice cream to every twenty guests ; one hundred and thirty sandwiches for one hundred guests, and six to ten quarts of jellies for each one hundred guests. For a company of twenty, allow three chickens for salad ; one hundred pickled oysters ; two molds of char- lotte russe ; one gallon of cream, and four dozen biscuits.
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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

514Calories

44 gProtein

24 gFat

28 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 5 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Biscuit	1 medium (45g)	166
Chicken	100g cooked	165
Oyster	6 medium (84g)	81
Ice Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51
Cream	1 tbsp (15ml) heavy	51

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Goff, May Perrin, [from old catalog] ed. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.

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The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Turkey + chickentop 7% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together688 recipes

Shared aroma: (z)-4-decenal (green, must).
Oyster + turkeytop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together473 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-hexenal (green, leafy).
Cream + biscuittop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together1,235 recipes

Shared aroma: octanal (fat, soap).
Oyster + biscuittop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together183 recipes

Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).
Oyster + chickentop 16% of all pairs

Smell alikemoderate

Cooked together972 recipes

Shared aroma: 2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, green).