Subj : Real Deal was: Cookware ( [1]
To : Shawn Highfield
From : Ruth Haffly
Date : Sat Apr 20 2024 16:01:36
Hi Shawn,
RH> Most everybody does, but I know of some that stick to the recipe as
RH> written, every time, no exceptions. I did that when I first started
SH> Andrea is like this. I even have recipes printed and pretend to use
SH> them when I make something I've made a 100 times just so she'll eat
SH> it. "I don't like when you change recipes, make them correctly."
SH> (Hope she doens't see this) As long as a printed recipe is handy she
SH> will eat it. ;)
I'll use a printed recipe for guidance the first time I'll make
something, unless it's a cake or similar. Those, I'll stay fairly close
to the original (some tweaking from time to time) as they're more
sensitive to changes. Other times I'll keep the recipe handy aas a
reference for key ingredients--make sure I don't leave anything major
out--and quite often, I'll wing it, especially if I've made it a
gazillion times before.
Something funny--shortly after we got married, the comic strip "Blondie"
showed Dagwood in the kitchen, mixing something. He reads the recipe and
sees that it calls for 2 teaspoons of water. Blondie is in the living
room so he yells in "is that heaping or level?". When we first got
married and Steve tried his hand at cooking some things (more so,
baking) he'd read the recipe, then ask me what had to be level or what
could be heaping. I showed him the comic and for a long time, he'd see
an ingredient and just ask "is it heaping or level?".
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Catch you later,
Ruth
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