Recipes: a new notation
Jan. 18th, 2009 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
desperanceI just had to write out a recipe, by hand. Eww. How primitive is that? I had actually already hit the "print" key, when I remembered that the printer's not plugged in, on account of I cannot find my Linux drivers for the laptop. And I only had a minute, so I had to scrawl it. With my hand. With a pen.
And I wasn't going to write out all those words, was I? Wouldn't have been able to read them anyway, even my all-upper-case script is execrable; and it would have hurt, 'cos my hands are bad right now (there's too much mousework, I think, in rewriting; the laptop has never triggered RSI before this, but I've only ever been originating text before, never revising); and I didn't have the time.
So: new notation. Two columns. Left-hand column, list of ingredients, in order of appearance. Lots of those; it's a curry. Many spices.
Right-hand column: method. Beside the first ingredients, it says "sizzle". Then, in order as needed, it says "add" - "add" - "add". At the bottom it says "cook". That's my kind of method.
And I wasn't going to write out all those words, was I? Wouldn't have been able to read them anyway, even my all-upper-case script is execrable; and it would have hurt, 'cos my hands are bad right now (there's too much mousework, I think, in rewriting; the laptop has never triggered RSI before this, but I've only ever been originating text before, never revising); and I didn't have the time.
So: new notation. Two columns. Left-hand column, list of ingredients, in order of appearance. Lots of those; it's a curry. Many spices.
Right-hand column: method. Beside the first ingredients, it says "sizzle". Then, in order as needed, it says "add" - "add" - "add". At the bottom it says "cook". That's my kind of method.