MJB wrote:
> "Becca" > wrote in message
> ...
>>>
>>> So: What is your opinion? How do you handle quantities in recipes?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> //Herbert and Yvonne
>>
>> It would be safe to say that most of us throw recipes together,
>> using a handful of this and a dash of that. That can get tricky if
>> you are baking.
>>
>
> Formal recipes and measurements become an issue when you are trying
> to pass along something you make to somebody else.

Like my German grandmother's recipe for date-nut coconut candy. Her
(hand-written) recipe called for "butter the size of a walnut". Well gee,
that tells me a lot! I managed to make it successfully by adding a rather
large lump of softened butter (more than 1 Tbs., less than 2). She wrote
all the recipes (at least, the ones she bothered to write down) in that
manner. She knew how to make it; writing it down was problematic.

Jill