[Sca-cooks] Not lost my touch, OOP
Ron Carnegie
r.carnegie at verizon.net
Sun Sep 1 20:56:10 PDT 2002
At 09:13 PM 9/1/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Well,
>
>Pound cake, in French is known as gateau quatre-quarts, which makes it easy
>to remember the recipe :-) Quatre quart literally means four quarters,
>which stands for the four ingredients" Eggs, sugar, flour and butter.
Curious....I learned thatthe name "pound cake" reminded you of
ingredients (though in truth it is just the measurement).
I remain,
Ranald de Balinhard,
Ron Carnegie
r.carnegie at verizon.net
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