Bava Metzia 86B

ריבה להן. ומעשה נמי ברבי יוחנן בן מתיא שאמר לבנו צא שכור לנו פועלים, הלך ופסק להן מזונות. וכשבא אצל אביו, אמר לו: בני, אפילו אתה עושה להן כסעודת שלמה בשעתו, לא יצאת ידי חובתך עמהן, שהן בני אברהם יצחק ויעקב.

he has increased his obligation to them, since if he had meant to give them no more than the accepted amount, he would not have made any stipulation at all. The Mishnah then continues: And there is also a supporting incident involving R' Yoḥanan ben Matya, who said to his son: Go out and hire laborers for us. His son went, hired them, and pledged to provide sustenance for them as a term of their employment, without specifying the details. And when he came back to his father and reported what he had done, R' Yoḥanan ben Matya said to him: My son, even if you were to prepare a feast for them like that of King Solomon in his time, you would not have fulfilled your obligation to them, as they are the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

למימרא דסעודתא דאברהם אבינו עדיפא מדשלמה? והכתיב: ״ויהי לחם שלמה ליום אחד שלשים כר סלת וששים כר קמח. עשרה בקר בראים ועשרה בקר רעי ומאה צאן לבד מאיל וצבי ויחמור וברברים אבוסים״! ואמר גוריון בן אסטיון משמיה דרב: הללו לעמילן של טבחים. ורבי יצחק אמר: הללו לציקי קדירה.

The Talmud asks: Is this to say that the feast of Abraham, our forefather, was superior to that of King Solomon? But isn’t it written: “And Solomon’s provision for one day was 30 measures of fine flour, and 60 measures of meal; 10 fat oxen, and 20 oxen out of the pastures, and 100 sheep, beside harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fatted fowl” (I Kings 5:2–3). And Guryon ben Asteyon says in the name of Rav: These measures of flour mentioned in the verse were used merely for the bakers’ well-worked dough [la’amilan] that was placed in the pot to absorb the steam. And R' Yitzḥak says: These measures of flour were used for meat pudding, a mixture of wine, flour, and leftover meat, in a pot.