Water

pucenavel

Yesterday my wife printed a recipe for Stuffed Cabbage off of the WW site. It called for the sort of things I would expect to see:

Cabbage
Lean Ground Beef
Rice

...but then something caught my eye. It called for 1/2 cup of Mineral Water.

Mineral Water? Really? Tap water just won't do to make stuffed cabbage?

Should I be checking to make sure that the water used to grow the cabbage was sourced only from snowmelt on the north slopes of mountains exceeding 6000 feet? Do I need to verify that the rice was grown in paddys that use only filtered bog water?

I sometimes feel that we take this "purity" thing a little too far.

Go look at the quality of water consumed by most of the third world and then tell me that our tap water isn't clean.

JenMc14

Maybe they're using mineral water to call for sparkling/carbonated water. I know I usually think of mineral water as sparkling water.

pucenavel

Some mineral waters sparkle, but it is not a requirement. From Wikipedia:

Mineral water is water from a mineral spring containing various minerals such as salts and sulfur compounds. Mineral water may be "sparkling".
Traditionally, mineral waters were used or consumed at their spring sources, often referred to as "taking the waters" or "taking the cure," at developed cities such as spas, baths, or wells. The term spa was used for a place where the water was consumed and bathed in; bath where the water was used primarily for bathing, therapeutics, or recreation; and well where the water was to be consumed.

seena511

Maybe they're using mineral water to call for sparkling/carbonated water. I know I usually think of mineral water as sparkling water.

this was my thought too. but if that's not what the recipe was referring to, then, yes, that is ridic.