[Sca-cooks] Order of ingredients

[Susan Lin]

Putting the ingredients in a list in the order they appear in the recipe is
my preference.  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.

Shoshana

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 12:30 AM, David Friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>wrote:

> One question that came up in working on the tenth edition of the Miscellany
> was in what order to list ingredients. It seems logical to list them in the
> order they are mentioned--but should that be in the original recipe or the
> worked out version?
>
> I settled on the latter, on the grounds that I expect most readers will be
> working from that. There are a few cases where the worked out recipe
> consists only of quantities and perhaps a sentence or two of clarification,
> and for those I did it in the order of the original.
>
> Opinions? Did I get it wrong?
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