aem wrote:
> jmcquown wrote:
>> jmcquown wrote: [snip]
>> I love to read old "receipts" because some of them are purely funny.
>> But I still don't think Fannie Farmer was evil <G> simply because she
>> thought recipes needed measurements for newbie cooks.
>>
> I'm sure Fannie was a wonderful person. I said her *legacy*, meaning
> the illusion that cooking was a matter of following a precisely
> measured recipe, was evil. Put it this way, knowledgeable spectators
> at many tennis matches can tell who is going to win a match by simply
> noticing which catches the ball earlier with her/his groundstrokes.
> In the same way, if you peek in the kitchen and see the cook
> frequently tasting as she/he goes along, odds are it will be good
> food. If they never taste, they aren't cooks. At best, they're
> chemists. -aem

Oh don't get me wrong; I agree with you! As previously mentioned, I rarely
measure anything. But still, at some point it must have appeared to be
necessary at the Boston Cooking School. No one said everyone for the next
100 years had to carve it in stone

Jill