SC - Help!!! Oatcake recipe-long

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Hauviette wrote:

a great deal about oat cakes. And i say thanks for the information

BUT

I have some problems with the following recipe:

>The World’s Best Oatcakes
>(As Sampled in Killybegs, November 96)
>Ingredients
>1 ½ cups white flour
>2 cups rolled oats or oatmeal
>1 teaspoon baking powder
>¼ teaspoon salt
>¼ cup sugar
>¼ pound of butter (you can substitute cooking oil for the butter, with
>reducing the amount of milk; it just makes a crisper cake)
>¾ cup buttermilk or sweet milk soured with a little vinegar.

These ingredients may look fine to you, but i'm seeing rather a lot 
of non-alpha-numeric characters as quantities of ingredients.

For example, i see
1 [capital pi] cups white flour
[small pi] teaspoon salt
[small pi] cup sugar
[small pi] pound butter
[equal to or less than] cup buttermilk...

I'd like to know what actual amounts were really used in this recipe

AND

make a request to ALL members of this list.

Your fonts may not be the same as my fonts. When writing *fractions*, 
please DON'T use a single key character for any fraction. Not all 
fonts are mapped the same for non-standard characters. I have fonts 
with fractions, but i know from experience that the fractions are not 
all mapped to the same key in different fonts.

PLEASE use [numberA][slash][numberB], e.g. 3/4, for fractions so that 
we may ALL be able to share in these culinary treasures.

Thanks

Anahita al-shazhiyya bint-al-karim al-Fassi