[Sca-cooks] Order of ingredients

[Antonia]

On 17/11/2010 9:49 AM, David Friedman wrote:
>> And then there's the question of whether one should write
>>
>> 3 large onions
>> .
>> .
>> Dice onions.
>>
>> or
>>
>> 3 large onions, diced
>
> And whether "3 large onions" or "1 1/2 lb onions" or "3 large onions = 
> 1 1/2 lb"?
>
> I've mostly been giving onions by weight, garlic by number and size of 
> cloves, on the theory that people buy onions by weight and size isn't 
> very well defined, but many people don't have a scale, especially not 
> one that handles small amounts. That's for recipes that don't specify 
> size of onions.


I tend to object to excessive specificity when it's something like a 
diced onion-- if I feel pushed, I might write 3 lg. onions or equiv., 
diced.


-- 
Antonia di Benedetto Calvo

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