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Do I need to sift flour for quick breads?
I am making mini quick breads for Christmas. The recipe calls for 3 cups of flour.
Do I need to sift the flour? If so, should I sift it before or after measuring?
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Convert seed based measurements to pre-ground?
I want to use a recipe that gives ingredient measurements based on the spice seeds. My local grocery store does not have at least half of the ingredients in seed form. But the store does have them ...
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How do I work out how large a cake tin I have?
I am making a cake and the recipe calls for a 900g/2lb loaf tin. How do I work out if the loaf tin I have is the correct size - or how do I work out how big my tin is so I know whether to scale the ...
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How many eggs in a Mille Crêpes Cake?
I've looked through a few recipes for Mille Crêpes and see that many use double as many eggs in the batter compared with most plain crêpe recipes (6 eggs per cup of flour compared to 3).
I'm not a ...
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How many jumbo double yolk eggs should I substitute for large eggs?
If I only have jumbo double yolk eggs, should I reduce the amount of eggs called for in cake recipe (which calls for large eggs), and if so, by how much?
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Does 1 tea spoon correspond to half table spoon?
I don't have a measuring glass. I just have a tablespoon (15 ml). Can 1 tea spoon be considered half of 1 table spoon?
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What do you use to measure the weight of ingredient?
EDIT: I welcome recommendation of scales and alternatives to weigh the ingredients.
I don't have a single tools to measure the weight of ingredient.
I came across recipe with different weight:
1/4 ...
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What does “combine dry ingredients through cloves” mean?
I see in several recipes for spice cake to do things like "combine dry ingredients through cloves" or "add flour through cloves". What does that mean? I'm looking at this recipe. It calls for 1/2 tsp ...
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Cored tomatoes measured before or after coring?
If a recipe calls for 3 pounds of tomatoes, cored, should you start with three pounds of tomatoes and core them, or should you have 3 pounds after coring? I would have thought that you start with 3 ...
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What's the size of the plastic cup that came with my rice cooker?
I have a cheap-o rice cooker that works fine for me. It came with a plastic cup to measure 1, 2 or 3 "plastic cup" units of rice. Water is added to match the '1', '2' or '3' mark in the cooker bowl. ...
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What is the proper volume to weight conversion for Bisquick?
Most recipes that call for Bisquick have volume measurements, but I've read it's better to measure most dry ingredients by mass (not to mention more convenient and less messy). So what is the proper ...
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Stir fry sauce quantity
I am trying to create written instructions for making stir fry for some rather inexperienced cooks to follow. One dilemma that I'm having is describing the amount of sauce to use. How would you ...
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For equal volumes water and sugar, what is the ratio of separated volume vs. combined?
I'm making a simple syrup with equal parts sugar and water in a glass measuring cup and want to avoid dirtying two measuring cups.
I want to measure one (say standard table sugar,) then add the ...
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When a recipe calls for X cooked amount of something is that before or after it has been cooked?
I think I know the answer to this and realize that it is similar to this question about nuts, but I wanted to verify my instinct. When a recipe calls for 1 ½ cups cooked X, is that recipe calling for ...
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Creating meal plans [closed]
I really do not know where to place this question but since this is food related might as well post it here. I am currently making a web application regarding meal plans where the User will input his ...
