Sugar n Spice
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When you're reading cookbooks, are there any ingredients or recipes you wish there were more of....or less of even?
What do you think of what they include in cookbooks?
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Just for personal preference/taste, I could do without the seafood/fish chapters. I skip right over those, I don’t even do an initial flip-through.
JAS_OH1
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I actually don't own any cookbooks, but when I see recipes online that contain garlic, I often wonder why they use so little of it!
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As above regarding garlic, but just spread that to all herbs and spices.
And why so much sugar and salt?
badjak
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I agree.
I generally just double herb and spice amount and reduce salt & sugar.
They could remove the desert section in most cookbooks as far as I am concerned.
I generally just double herb and spice amount and reduce salt & sugar.
They could remove the desert section in most cookbooks as far as I am concerned.
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Yep, double herbs and spices
Half sugar and salt (though here I tend to quarter the salt if it gets any at all).
Not so much ingredients or recipes, but that utterly boring part at the beginning where they rabbit on about "essential kitchenware" and "what you must have in your pantry".
badjak
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And the "how to use your weighing scale" bit
Barriehie
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Yeah - treating the reader like they've never cooked anything in their entire life!
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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A biography that takes up more than a page.
I’m interested in cooking not where you went to nursery.
I’m interested in cooking not where you went to nursery.
JAS_OH1
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I don't know about that (because I don't own a cookbook) but isn't there a small booklet that comes with the scale when purchased that explains everything? I mean, at least mine did
Yep. I've got one. It reads something like:I don't know about that (because I don't own a cookbook) but isn't there a small booklet that comes with the scale when purchased that explains everything? I mean, at least mine did
1) press the button on the right (on/off) which turns the scale on.
2) place the ingredients to be weighed on the plate/dish of the scale (well I'd be pretty stupid if I put them on the side, wouldn't I?)
3) read the weight in grams or ounces ( Right.No way am I interested in centigrade of fahrenheit)
4) do not immerse in liquid.( oh, hang on - I'm going to put my scales in the dishwasher)\
I fully understand what they have to do to avoid lawsuits, etc., but sometimes, the instruction manual, well, DOH!
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
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I dunno, a lot of people don’t understand what ‘Tare’ means.