False quantities
Nov. 2nd, 2014 01:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceThis, people, this is why the US preference for measuring ingredients by volume irritates me so.
I am baking a pumpkin gingerbread cake. I have a recipe and everything; it gives measurements by cup and spoonful, as is trad hereabouts, and by gram for the weighty.
It wants one and a half cupsful of roasted pumpkin, or 680 grams.
I roasted a pumpkin. I have about three cupsful of pulp from that - and it weighs 500 grams.
I will be using one pumpkin's-worth of pulp, and be damned to the recipe. But I can never know whether I'm using twice as much as was called for, or only three quarters as much. Grrr...
I am baking a pumpkin gingerbread cake. I have a recipe and everything; it gives measurements by cup and spoonful, as is trad hereabouts, and by gram for the weighty.
It wants one and a half cupsful of roasted pumpkin, or 680 grams.
I roasted a pumpkin. I have about three cupsful of pulp from that - and it weighs 500 grams.
I will be using one pumpkin's-worth of pulp, and be damned to the recipe. But I can never know whether I'm using twice as much as was called for, or only three quarters as much. Grrr...