Things your mother should have told you
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- OneMoreCheekyOne
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Re: Things your mother should have told you
Re weights, I vaguely remember from food tech (or whatever it was called) than 25g is approx equal to 1oz or a table spoon full. Probably not recommended for baking if exact amounts are needed but I often use that method if I don’t need to be exact.
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Re: Things your mother should have told you
My mum bought me a set of double ended measuring spoons, imperial one end and metric the other, I’ve had them about 30 years, very handy - the metric end is noticeably smaller
OMCO, I think a TBS of most things is quite a bit less than an ounce; I know that in US recipes a tablespoon of butter is half an ounce
OMCO, I think a TBS of most things is quite a bit less than an ounce; I know that in US recipes a tablespoon of butter is half an ounce
Re: Things your mother should have told you
A tbs is 15ml so I think that would roughly equate to 15g (depending on what was being measured).
Re: Things your mother should have told you
My double ended measuring spoons are the same. The "tablespoon" is bigger than the "15ml" end. The same for the teaspoon/5ml and pro rata for the smaller ones.
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Pampy wrote:A tbs is 15ml so I think that would roughly equate to 15g (depending on what was being measured).
But if by any chance you are using an Aussie recipe a Tablespoon is 20ml
15ml would be 15g of water, but not a lot of denser ingredients. But if it's only 1 or 2 tblsp the variation often doesn't matter.
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Re: Things your mother should have told you
I have an inkling that Australian recipe have eggs in weight too, do they?
When I first joined the Beeb in 2004, I didn't have scales.
If a recipe had 300g of flour, I'd spoon out 20 x tablespoons. When I got my Dualit scales for Christmas, I checked for a couple of months, and was surprisingly accurate no matter the ingredient: flour sugar liquids etc.
I think that's why some mum's and grans were excellent bakers - their method of weights worked well for them (like it used to for me).
When I first joined the Beeb in 2004, I didn't have scales.
If a recipe had 300g of flour, I'd spoon out 20 x tablespoons. When I got my Dualit scales for Christmas, I checked for a couple of months, and was surprisingly accurate no matter the ingredient: flour sugar liquids etc.
I think that's why some mum's and grans were excellent bakers - their method of weights worked well for them (like it used to for me).
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Re: Things your mother should have told you
I don't own a skirt or a dress. Never wear tights but have been known to have Long Johns on under my trousers. Don't own any slippers either.
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Re: Things your mother should have told you
I need slippers - so much warmer than shoes and my feet are like ice for half the years
I used to make cakes measuring the fat by dividing the block and estimating the dry ingredients using a coffee mug as a measuring cup
I used to make cakes measuring the fat by dividing the block and estimating the dry ingredients using a coffee mug as a measuring cup
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Pepper Pig wrote:I don't own a skirt or a dress. Never wear tights but have been known to have Long Johns on under my trousers. Don't own any slippers either.
Neither do I own skirt/dress/tights - but I do have slippers - slips on for summer, boots for winter.
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My husband refuses to wear slippers, inexplicably. He wears old 'pumps'. Mind you, for years, I wore old shoes too. Probably ought to again as I am ruining my slippers by 'just nipping outside'.
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Re: Things your mother should have told you
I never wear slippers. Just whatever's on my feet in the way of socks, tights or nothing. Usually socks. I keep an old pair of slip on shoes by the back door for when I need to pop into the garden.
I still like to wear dresses sometimes, for winter I've several which go with thick tights and boots and of course, a decent one which comes out for funerals and not much else.
I used tablespoons for ounces for years for flour and sugar and sometimes golden syrup with very satisfactory results despite the golden syrup being way out. I sometimes smile now I have digital scales and worry about getting the grams exact. I haven't much clue about grams and decimal stuff. I know that 8oz is around 250g and that 125g is therefore 4oz but any calculation for which they are not a good base gets tricky A recipe called for a measurement of vanilla extract the other day - didn't have a clue. What's wrong with teaspoons or drops ? If something said cups we used to use teacups Recipes are pretty flexible really in many cases!
I still like to wear dresses sometimes, for winter I've several which go with thick tights and boots and of course, a decent one which comes out for funerals and not much else.
I used tablespoons for ounces for years for flour and sugar and sometimes golden syrup with very satisfactory results despite the golden syrup being way out. I sometimes smile now I have digital scales and worry about getting the grams exact. I haven't much clue about grams and decimal stuff. I know that 8oz is around 250g and that 125g is therefore 4oz but any calculation for which they are not a good base gets tricky A recipe called for a measurement of vanilla extract the other day - didn't have a clue. What's wrong with teaspoons or drops ? If something said cups we used to use teacups Recipes are pretty flexible really in many cases!
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Re: Things your mother should have told you
I solemnly declare that I once wore tights.
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Re: Things your mother should have told you
Gillthepainter wrote:I have an inkling that Australian recipe have eggs in weight too, do they?
When I first joined the Beeb in 2004, I didn't have scales.
If a recipe had 300g of flour, I'd spoon out 20 x tablespoons. When I got my Dualit scales for Christmas, I checked for a couple of months, and was surprisingly accurate no matter the ingredient: flour sugar liquids etc.
I think that's why some mum's and grans were excellent bakers - their method of weights worked well for them (like it used to for me).
Gill, I think eggs in recipes are usually just ‘medium’ Or ‘large’ although the egg boxes do give a weight on them, I think!
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