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Cooking For A Crowd

Resources focusing on large quantity recipes for catering, foodservice, parties, potluck dinners, and gatherings.
Cooking For A Crowd
Need large quantity recipes for parties, potlucks or family gatherings? You'll find tips and hints, safety issues, to double or not to double, and many recipes.
Alaskan Seafood
Over forty recipes designed to serve 24 or more, using various Alaskan seafoods. Organized by category and seasonal availability.
Apricot Recipes
Six recipes using apricots from the Apricot Producers of California include Turkey Apricot Rice Bake, Apricot Bread Pudding, and more.
Durkee Recipes
Durkee has twenty recipes using their seasoning products, which can be adapted if need be. Recipes are tailored to serve 8 or 24.
Egg Recipes
American Egg Board has nine recipes using eggs designed to serve 24, including Primavera Salad, Seafarers Quiche, Stuffed Shells Italiano, and more.
Epicurious
Epicurious has hundreds of recipes for quantity cooking. This link takes you to those serving 12, from Gourmet and Bon Appetit Magazines. Here's another link for those recipes serving 10.
Food Service Recipes
There are over 1200 recipes scaled to serve 100 in this collection. They are conveniently divided into standard categories with each recipe on its own page. Most of the savory recipes can be scaled down by division.
Growlies For Groups Online Cookbook
Dayle has compiled a nice collection of recipes designed to feed large groups, all neatly categorized.
Outdoor Barbecuing
University of Georgia has a number of recipes for cooking outdoors for small and large crowds. Scroll up for other tips and information.
Serves 100
How much fried chicken and/or baked beans do you need to serve 100 people? This handy chart from SOAR has guidelines to help you calculate.
Soybean Recipes
United Soybean Board has ten recipes for meatless quantity dishes, including Asian Cajun Gumbo, Samurai Salad and Mushroom Marinara, to serve 24.
USDA Challenge I
USDA has nine recipes designed for school lunches but also good for other functions. Recipes are for 50 and 100 servings, but also has scaled down versions for home use, plus nutrition info.
USDA Challenge II
Along the same lines as the first challenge, with 15 different recipes.
Vegetarian Society
Half a dozen savory entree recipes to serve 12. Plus vegetarian guidelines, ingredient reminders, and other tips and hints to plan for a vegetarian crowd feast.
Whole Roasted Pig
Cook up a whole roasted pig to feed 200 to 250 people.
Zeus Kitchen
The Zeus Kitchen at Cornell University shares over 45 recipes for an enticing array of different soups, from homestyle to exotic, with each making about 5 gallons of soup.

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