"ms_peacock" > wrote in message
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> "Muddle" > wrote in message
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> > If your going to bake you have to weigh the ingredients.
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> Don't be silly. You don't have to weigh anything to bake. Baking is NOT
> precise! Compare recipes from different sources for the same thing and
> you'll find all kinds of variations. If you had to be precise there
> wouldn't be dozens of variations for the same thing.
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> Ms P
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Ask anyone who actually bakes for a living! The only time they don't weigh
flour etc. is when the recipe they use calls for a 5 lb. bag which has
already been weighed. If you want to make a consistent product you have to
weigh the ingredients.
It's the reason your banana nut bread comes out perfect one year and sags in
the middle the next, while using the same recipe, oven, temp and time
settings.
Take two small bags of flour and dump one unsifted into a container, then
sift the other into a container and you'll see the difference. Other
factors can be the moisture content in the flour or the banana's moisture
content or the size of the banana etc.
I'm a male and took Home EC for males called Singles Living, because I was
going to college and even I learned that fact over 30 years ago.