Big Gathering Soup Table
These recipes are set for 40 servings. Only use this when more than twenty are coming.
Guests or family gathering · 6 adults · 6 total
Every recipe here has been cooked and corrected by hand. But the way these three are grouped into one table, and the portion split, are still a draft the chef hasn't signed off on. If an amount feels too big or too small, trust that instinct.
Here's the table
from 40 servings → 6 servings
from 4 servings → 3 servings
from 4 servings → 3 servings
from 12 cake → 1 cake
from 14 pieces → 4 pieces
Shopping list
Ingredients shared across dishes are combined, so you don't grab scallions three times at the store.
- Minced garlicin 2 dishes4 g+2¾ Tbsp
- Eggsin 2 dishes11 g
- Unsalted butterin 2 dishes2.7 oz(76 g)
- Cake flourin 2 dishes1.7 oz(47 g)
- Chestnut pastein 2 dishes2 oz(56 g)
- Powdered sugarin 2 dishes24 g
- Vinegarin 2 dishes½ cup(120 ml)
- Cheongyang chili peppersin 2 dishes2½
- Bread flour13 g
- Gochujang (Korean chili paste)1¼ Tbsp
- Gold rum1 g
- Pork bones7.5 lb
- Doenjang (Korean soybean paste)¼ cup(¼ cup (60 ml))
- Peanut butter½ Tbsp
- Rum1 g
- Maesil-cheong (green plum syrup)5 Tbsp(75 ml)
- Bonui chestnuts (candied in inner skin)1
- King oyster mushrooms4
- Heavy cream6.5 g
- Almond flour4 g
- Cucumber1½
- Milk1.5 g
- Instant coffee0.5 g
- White chocolate6.5 g
Check your pantry Skip it if you already have it
- Sugarin 3 dishes1.1 oz(31 g)+5 Tbsp(75 ml)
- Saltin 3 dishes9 g
- Gochugaru (Korean chili flakes)1¼ Tbsp
- Anchovy stock powder½ Tbsp
- MSG seasoning½ Tbsp
- Beef dasida (stock powder)1¾ Tbsp
- Ice½ cup(½ cup (120 ml))
- Jin-ganjang (all-purpose soy sauce)150 ml
- Whole sesame seeds¾ tsp
- Whole wheat flour17 g
Vegetables never had measured amounts, so no quantity is listed. Leaving them as written beats making a number up.
Prep order
No hours are listed. The recipes don't carry total cook times, and we won't invent them. Just following the order makes the day much easier.
The day before
- King Oyster Mushroom Jangajji (Soy-Pickled)1 month refrigerated. Pour off the liquid after 3 to 4 days, re-boil it, and pour it back, and it keeps 2 to 3 months.
Morning of
- Ppyeo-haejang-guk (Pork Bone Hangover Soup) — bulk, 50 lb
- Bonui Chestnut Puff Pastry Pie
- Whole Wheat Coffee Sablé with Chestnut Buttercream
Just before serving
- Oi-naengguk (Chilled Cucumber Soup)Made ahead, this goes soggy or lukewarm