Math is a calling for some, but I was put on this earth for other pursuits. ;^)
You and me both!!!!!
The funny thing is, though..........give me a recipe and ask me to cut it down or increase it, and I can do it as if it were second nature.
Pectin and sugar are not cheap, so the last thing on earth I want to do is waste either experimenting with new recipes. But experiment I do............I've just figured out how to cut them down to manageable size where I don't feel so bad if something doesn't work and I decide to just throw it away.
I'm not a big of red wine for drinking, but I do like to cook with it, especially with venison, so I usually buy the 4liter jug Carlo Rossi burgandy or chianti. Well I needed red wine a couple of weeks ago and hubby picked up a bottle for me, but it wasn't my normal screw cap jug stuff - it was just as cheap, and very good, but had a cork in it.
So here I've got this half bottle of red wine sitting on the kitchen counter, just staring at me, for days. It just so happens I have a recipe for wine jelly that I have never tried...........but I don't have enough wine for the recipe. Those kinds of math skills, I sure do have, because the jelly worked perfectly even though I more than halved the recipe.........in my head.
BTW - if you don't like the wine, you won't like the jelly.