jmcquown wrote:
> 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.

But, but, but "butter the size of a walnut". is a scientific measurement
don'tchaknow)

well it was when I was wee)))