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Default Measures and Quantities in Recipes

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:27:58 -0500, "Nancy Young" >
wrote:

>Maybe it's me. Perhaps sublty is lost on me. A pinch of
>cayenne for a 9X13 pan of macaroni and cheese? Why
>bother?


One of my old cookbooks -- I think it is the original Fannie Farmer --
is always calling for "a few grains" of cayenne. I just love that
phrase.

Tara