A 2018 Thanksgiving 26 Adults

By pboots

Ingredients

• 2 turkeys - butterball 1-20 lbs and 1-15 lbs
• 15 lbs potatoes
• 4 pounds butter
• 4 brown berry bags of dressing
• 1 package of fresh sage
• 2 batches of sweet potatoes
• 4 single batches of green beans
• 2 batches of jiffy corn
• 4 dozen Hawaiian rolls
• 1 gallons of milk
• 31 cups gravy (turkeys yielded 13 cups drippings, boiled giblets 7 cups)
• 31 cups liquid
• 36 TBSP butter
• 36 TBSP flour 4 TBSP = 1/4 cup
• 1 tsp salt per 8 cups liquid
• 1/4 tsp pepper per 8 cups liquid
• 8 - 32 ounce turkey stock
• 2 cans black olives
• 1 jar 35 ounce big green olives
• 1 jar 6 ounce kalamata olives

Preparation

Step 1

How it went.

Remind people to bring containers for leftovers
1 and 1/2 pounds of butter left
3 containers of turkey stock left
3 dozen buns would have been enough
Amount of potatoes was fine
Amount of turkey was good
Gravy was just right .
One pan of dressing left
Corn, sweet potatoes, spinach was good
We should only make 4 cans of bean casserole
Four pies and pumpkin dessert was too much dessert
We drank one gallon of milk
Veggies and relish tray were basically eaten
We ate about 6 appetizers