From: Len Cole (leonard.cole_at_verizon.net)
Date: Sat May 01 2004 - 18:25:04 PDT
Living in an "English" system country, we usually only see the occsional recipe in its metric form. I've never seen a cookbook with volume-weight equivalents. Of course, I don;t own one right now anyway.
Of course I gave a weight example and a volume example. I didn't claim at all that they were equivalents. I was merely using them as examples of the kinds of measured ingredients one might need for a recipe.
Regardless, the whole point was that in cooking, at least for those who are accustomed to the volume system, it's far easier to estimate the volume of an ingredient than it is the weight and that cooking is far from an "exact science", so the precison of metric measurement is really overkill.
And while the subject of recipes was nrought up, try this one on for laughs (and save it for the holidays later this year):
Christmas Cake Recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup of water
1 tsp baking soda
1 cup of sugar
1 tsp salt
1 cup of brown sugar
Lemon juice
4 Large eggs
Assorted Nuts
2-8 Bottles Stolychniya Vodka
2 cups of dried fruit
1. Sample the vodka to check quality. Take a large bowl, check the vodka again. To be sure it is the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.
2. Repeat step 1.
3. Turn on the electric mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl
4. Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point it's best to make sure the vodka is shtill OK. Try another cup... jusht in cashe...
5. Turn off the mixerer.
6. Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.
7. Pick fruit off floor.
8. Mix on the turner.
9. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers pry it loose with a sdrewscriver.
10. Sample the vodka to check for tonsisticity.
11. Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Who giveshz a shift.
12. Check the vodka.
13. Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.
14. Add one table.
15. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find. Hell, add the spoon.
16. Greash the oven and piss in the fridge.
17. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.
18. Don't forget to beat off the turner.
19. Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the vodka and kick the cat.
20. Fall into bed.
Cherry Mistmas!!!
On May 01 2004, Norman Palardy <palardyn_at_shaw.ca> wrote:
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