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To: JudyinCanada

“I don’t measure, so it’s kind of whatever you think works”

I am so familiar with that. All of my grandmother’s and aunts and mother’s recipes are like that. It’ll say things like add enough salt. Really hard when you’re a new cook but I think I have figured most of them out.


10,507 posted on 10/05/2023 6:52:56 AM PDT by CottonBall (“Fascism should be called corporatism because it is a merger of state & corporate power" – Mussolini)
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To: CottonBall

That’s what I figured about you, and Dolly. Cooks know when it says mix in some cornstarch and water then add to thicken, we’re not talking about two cups lol.

Yes, someone who doesn’t cook definitely needs exact measurements.

Even when I follow a recipe, when it says 1 teaspoon or tablespoon of vanilla, well, that’s just funny to me. I pour vanilla, I don’t measure it.


10,509 posted on 10/05/2023 6:56:03 AM PDT by JudyinCanada (America's enemies want you to "trust the plan." Fight in reality, not the rabbit holes.)
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To: CottonBall

Recipes were always in our grandma’s heads.

I’ll never forget asking my Swiss Grandmother to write down her Swiss pastry recipe for Dutchlies.

She wrote that it called for a cup of salt.

Now we knew that couldn’t be right.

1/4 t maybe?


10,516 posted on 10/05/2023 7:10:57 AM PDT by Lakeside Granny (IN GOD WE TRUST with TRUMP WE STAND)
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10,526 posted on 10/05/2023 7:25:59 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (Despthaerately looking for new conspiracy theories as all the old ones have come true)
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