was P Re: [Sca-cooks] Plentyn Delit, now taught to cook

[Elaine Koogler]

I think you're right.  I know a lot of people have trouble redacting 
recipes, but it sort of came naturally to me as well...but then I cook 
using the "a dab of this and a 'glunck' of that" method. 

Kiri

aeduin wrote:

> I was taught by my mother and grandmother to cook by eye and taste.  
> It certainly annoyed the people at Cal Poly's restaurant school when I 
> cooked like that instead of blindly following the recipes.
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> AEduin
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>> I'm a traditional 'by eye' cook, and I often find that reading the
>> original recipe (in translation, if necessary) is a lot easier than
>> following someone else's modern style recipe. I wonder if it has to do
>> with the way people's brains work or just the way we are taught to cook?
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>> -- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net
>> "But he's a human being and terrible things happen to him so attention
>> must be paid.... Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a
>> person."  -- Arthur Miller, _Death of a Salesman_
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