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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
You know, I never paid attention to the quantities, only the ingredients. Thanks for pointing that out.
To me, that's inexplicable. I remember one of us running across a recipe book for the Navy (or some other branch of military service), maybe about 3 or 4 years ago. There were some huge quantities for items in those recipes, but that was understandable. From outward appearance, this present cookbook looked like any little cookbook of that time that some woman (not to be sexist, but that's just the way things almost always were back then) would have in her kitchen.
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If you look at the facsimile Mrs Beeton you will see recipes for soup kitchen use which are sizeable. Similarly in the US perhaps church suppers?
The Book of Household Management by
Mrs. Isabella Mary Beeton Free
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Househol...dp/B0084BNUAO/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Househ...dp/B0084BNUAO/
https://www.amazon.ca/Book-Household...dp/B0084BNUAO/