[Sca-cooks] Order of ingredients
Antonia
dama.antonia at gmail.com
Tue Nov 16 12:02:15 PST 2010
On 17/11/2010 8:36 AM, David Friedman wrote:
>> The one thing I truly hate is when a recipes says something
>> like: 2 cups onions, divided. It makes me crazy because invariably
>> I dump
>> all 2 cups in without realizing I needed to reserve 1/2 a cup for
>> later in
>> the recipe. I'd prefer if the recipe calls for 1 1 /2 cups at the
>> beginning
>> and 1/2 cup at the end for the ingredient to be listed twice. I may be
>> alone in this but it is my preference.
>
> That's the way I'm generally doing it--listing the ingredient twice
> with the relevant quantities. I wasn't entirely sure it was necessary,
> so your comment is useful.
I'll just come in as the dissenting voice in this one. If a recipe says
2c. milk in one section and 1c. milk in another, I will *invariably*
read the first quantity, check the fridge, and then founder later on
when I realise I need 3c., not 2.
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Antonia di Benedetto Calvo
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Habeo metrum - musicamque,
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