Preparation and Serving Instruction:

Prior to your turn to prepare Breakfast: Friendship House will confirm the date and how many quiches to make. Depending on the time of month, numbers may vary.
Each Friday Friendship House will re-supply the kitchen with whatever supplies are needed. It should be noted, however, that you are expected to provide your own eggs, milk, and cheese. In the interest of simplicity and cleanliness, Friendship House requests you stick to the basic Sunday menu.

Saturday Afternoon: Meet at the church of Saint Andrew & Matthew (719 N. Shipley St.) between 3:30 and 4:00 pm to prepare the quiche. If the doors are still locked when you arrive, check the red Andrew's Place door in the back of the church on Orange Street.

Normal Saturday afternoon preparation entails:

• Preparing 10 quiches, covering them with foil and storing them in the refrigerator.
• Setting up tables and chairs for about 80 people. Place mats and napkins go at each place setting; plastic ware is stored at entrance.
• Preparing the coffee urns. Each urn holds 100 cups. Our rule of thumb is one cup of coffee for every 15 cups of water.
• Place juice and canned fruit in the refrigerator to chill overnight.

Sunday Morning: By 5:30 AM someone from Friendship House arrives to open the church, plug in the coffee urns and put the quiches in the oven. The homeless are admitted immediately and often assist with setup. On the way to church, the Friendship House staff member picks up the donuts at Dunkin Donuts on Dupont Highway. Between 7:00 and 7:15 the volunteers arrive. On a normal Sunday there are around six to eight volunteers.

Between 7:00 and 7:30, the following preparations need to be completed:

• Fruit placed in individual cups.
• Donuts put on plates and placed on the serving table.
• As soon as the coffee and tea in the large urns are done, one coffee and one tea are sweetened with five cups of sugar per urn. The other coffee urn is left unsweetened until needed.
• Salt and pepper packets are placed on coffee table.

The homeless begin their breakfast with coffee, tea and donuts. At least one volunteer should be around the donut table to keep it supplied. Another should stay near the coffee urn keeping this station supplied with cups, creamer and tea. Spills should be cleaned up before they are tracked across the room.

Between 7:15 and 7:30 AM, the quiches should be done. When the quiches, juice and fruit are ready to be served, everyone is asked to be seated for grace. We wait for the hall to come to silence and then one of the guest or volunteers leads us in prayer. After the grace, breakfast is served: first the fruit followed by quiche and juice. The guests are served at their tables. Until everyone has been served, no one gets more than one piece of quiche. If there is extra, people can come back for seconds.

By 8:00 clean up can begin. At least one volunteer is needed to scrub pans. Several others can begin wiping off the tables and chairs and collecting the trash. During cleanup the homeless are invited to participate in a brief prayer service in the Sts. Andrew & Matthew chapel. Latecomers are welcome to whatever leftovers remain, but this should not prevent the volunteers from completing their cleanup. Extra pieces of quiche should be wrapped in foil and distributed to those who wish to eat them later. There is seldom food left.

Kitchen Courtesy:

• Only volunteers working on the breakfast should be in the kitchen area. Private conferences and conversations should take place somewhere else.
• Always try to leave the kitchen area exactly as we found it. St. Andrew & Matthew is most generous in letting us use this space.

ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, CALL FRIENDSHIP HOUSE CONTACTS.

    Bill Perkins, Executive Director, 652-8133 (office), 559-5716 (cell phone)
    Roxane Blake, Breakfast Coordinator, 652-8133 (office), 633 -6229 (home)