Things in recipes that amuse you
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JeromeBarry1 wrote: »My mother's recipe for banana pudding says, "Butter the size of an egg". That's 4 tbsp in modern stick butter.
LOL!
My mother had a recipe that called for 4 melted 5¢ Hershey bars. Wonder what size they were back then.5 -
neugebauer52 wrote: »..."stir it anti clockwise"... It might be a bad translation from Cantonese.
What happens if you stir it clockwise instead?
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You open a portal to another dimension .6
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Keep mixing until it feels right. If I've never made it, how do I know if it "feels" right??3
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neugebauer52 wrote: »..."stir it anti clockwise"... It might be a bad translation from Cantonese.
Is the issue the words anti clockwise? - which as poster pointed out, is the normal term in many places. Not mis translated at all.
Or the fact that it had to be stirred in that direction only? - which I agree does seem weird.
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JeromeBarry1 wrote: »My mother's recipe for banana pudding says, "Butter the size of an egg". That's 4 tbsp in modern stick butter.
LOL!
My mother had a recipe that called for 4 melted 5¢ Hershey bars. Wonder what size they were back then.
Yes! This is something that’s tripped me up a few times when wanting to make a recipe of my Mum’s that I remember from childhood. ‘Small tin of...’, ‘packet of...’ Sometimes I even remember when the product was sold in more sizes than it is currently, but I have less of an idea what the relative weights of the different products were. In these cases I have to do the ‘mix until it feels right’ as mentioned above!2 -
paperpudding wrote: »neugebauer52 wrote: »..."stir it anti clockwise"... It might be a bad translation from Cantonese.
Is the issue the words anti clockwise? - which as poster pointed out, is the normal term in many places. Not mis translated at all.
Or the fact that it had to be stirred in that direction only? - which I agree does seem weird.
Seems weird indeed, although I have a cousin who is a research scientist specializing in manufacturing processes for pharmaceuticals who once told me that for certain chemical reactions, liquids have to be agitated in a very specific way.3 -
paperpudding wrote: »neugebauer52 wrote: »..."stir it anti clockwise"... It might be a bad translation from Cantonese.
Is the issue the words anti clockwise? - which as poster pointed out, is the normal term in many places. Not mis translated at all.
Or the fact that it had to be stirred in that direction only? - which I agree does seem weird.
Seems weird indeed, although I have a cousin who is a research scientist specializing in manufacturing processes for pharmaceuticals who once told me that for certain chemical reactions, liquids have to be agitated in a very specific way.
And here I thought it was something only learned in Hogwarts Potions class. Interesting.7 -
SuzySunshine99 wrote: »Cook until done.
DO NOT OVERCOOK.
My sister actually called me the other night and said "I just put a roast in the oven, how long should I cook it for?" That was the entire question.
My response was "Until it's done." I mean, how am I supposed to know if you aren't going to give me weight, temperature, etc.? And no, she doesn't have a meat thermometer.
My pet peeve is always recipes that say use "a heaping tablespoon of" - my heap may be larger than their heap.0 -
Not sure if it's been mentioned but i have a cast iron cookbook and with every recipe it says
"using potholders..." this is usually in a recipe to something that has been in the oven
Is this really something we need to be reminded of this??? it always makes me giggle a little4 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »My mother's recipe for banana pudding says, "Butter the size of an egg". That's 4 tbsp in modern stick butter.
LOL!
My mother had a recipe that called for 4 melted 5¢ Hershey bars. Wonder what size they were back then.
Omg! Hershey pie! I LOVED it as a kid. Have the recipe, can’t get it right. Either too much or too little.
4 5-cent Hershey bars, a bag of marshmallows, a carton of cool whip. So easy, so hard!1 -
paperpudding wrote: »neugebauer52 wrote: »..."stir it anti clockwise"... It might be a bad translation from Cantonese.
Is the issue the words anti clockwise? - which as poster pointed out, is the normal term in many places. Not mis translated at all.
Or the fact that it had to be stirred in that direction only? - which I agree does seem weird.
Seems weird indeed, although I have a cousin who is a research scientist specializing in manufacturing processes for pharmaceuticals who once told me that for certain chemical reactions, liquids have to be agitated in a very specific way.
And here I thought it was something only learned in Hogwarts Potions class. Interesting.
He told one amusing story where his lab was hired as consultants by a drug company that could synthesize a certain medicine in a vat containing about 1 litre of liquid. The synthesis involved controlling air pressure, gradual change in temperature and a very specific agitation pattern. For months they tried to reproduce the synthesis in larger containers to no avail. In the end, to scale up for industrial production they just had to use 500 little 1 litre containers.3 -
AliNouveau wrote: »Not sure if it's been mentioned but i have a cast iron cookbook and with every recipe it says
"using potholders..." this is usually in a recipe to something that has been in the oven
Is this really something we need to be reminded of this??? it always makes me giggle a little
As someone who has grabbed a hot pan handle that was recently out of the oven, sometimes we need reminders. Though I did start putting the pot holder glove over the handle instead of on my hand for things like that.
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I have a few of my mom’s recipes and my favorite instruction she gives is “bake until done”. It always cracks me up because...1. Duh and 2. Still not enough info! I usually end up calling her to find out the timing which come to think of it is probably the genius part of the instructions on her part!2
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This one frustrated me yesterday but I’ve come across it often.
Recipes that claim to have full nutritional info but when actually created in the recipe builder cannot possibly come in at the calorie count the recipe claims! 😡9 -
"Stiff peaks"0
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BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »Seeing Pancakerunner’s thread in Food & Nutrition about Angel Food Cake I went to Pinterest to have a look at recipes for it. What did I find?
“Two Ingredient Pineapple Angel Food Cake”.
The two ingredients: Angel Food Cake Mix & a tin of Pineapple 🤯🤯🤯🤯
That recipe is delightful. I used to make it for my kids.2 -
I'm not much of a cook, if given a choice I always pick cooking on my outside grill....but as my kids were growing up I would make recipes handed down to me by my mom. One of these was "goulash". My daughter, who is now 26, told me the other day, "Mom, our goulash is nothing like anybody else's goulash!" I had to laugh, my mom's goulash is literally 4 ingredients and knowing how financially poor her family was when she was young, I'm sure it was something my grandma just put together and called goulash. We loved it but it's not really goulash 😆5
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just_Tomek wrote: »
Yes I've seen that in recipes that have beaten egg whites , eg lemon meringue pie.- beat until standing in stiff peaks.
I haven't found it confusing - but I guess it could be if you don't know what stiff peaks refers to.
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