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Nullus Anxietas |
My wife makes one of these occasionally  Usually when there's left-over beef from something else.
Eight (8) fluid ounces. Unless you're talking coffee, then a "cup" is five (5) fl. oz.  Don't ask me why. I've no clue. My wife grew up on metric. She thinks Imperial measurements are nuts. Can't really argue that  "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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| Master of one hand pistol shooting  |
I have a Shari's pie almost gone here at home. One Shari's is 2 miles away. And I pass it and another one on the way to the range. Where I am going to shortly. I pass Costco as well. Costco pies are not bad. But Mother's pies are best. Oh! and Cabelas is not far out of my way either.... SIGnature NRA Benefactor CMP Pistol Distinguished | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Because traditionally, teacups and coffee cups were 6 ounce vessels, which allowed for a 5 ounce pour of the beverage with a little extra room for cream/milk and sugar. Nowadays, coffee cups are more likely to be 8/10/12+ ounces, especially in America. But coffeemakers are still commonly described by how many 5 ounce traditional cups of coffee they will produce. (So a 10 cup coffeemaker, for example, will make 50 ounces at a time.) Therefore that "10 cup" coffeemaker may only be enough to get you 4 cups of coffee if you're drinking from a 12 ounce mug, or 6 cups if you're drinking from an 8 ounce mug. | |||
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| Thank you Very little  |
OK, someone had to do it..... If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?" | |||
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This!  | |||
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I made bran muffins on Sat. A pack of wheat bran is 8 oz. but I'm really good, I can get like 3 cups from one pack. For bread baking, I like to figure the weights for future bake days. | |||
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| Staring back from the abyss  |
Since I've become more serious about my bread baking, I have started weighing my flour. I think if you gave ten people a one cup measuring cup and a bag of flour you'd get ten different amounts varying probably 50-100g. It does make a difference. That said though, I find bread baking to be anything but precise. There are so many subtleties and variables that make every single loaf unique despite being made in the same kitchen by the same person on the same day with the same ingredients. It's hard to measure "sticky" vs. "tacky" or "clearing the side of the bowl". How much flour does that take? It's what makes it fun...and frustrating. Different temperatures, different humidities, different flours, different yeasts, etc.... Measuring small amounts (yeast and salt), though, I still do with spoons as I'd rather not spend several hundred dollars on a lab level digital scale. I do have a decent scale, but not one that does those small amounts consistently. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
Weighing everything in recipes IS way more precise. An American dry measuring cup commonly used for flour and sugar is NOT a full 8 oz by liquid volume Try it sometime, fill a dry measuring cup with water then dump it into a liquid measuring cup with ounce markings, it's like 7.75 oz The other thing that is an issue with our method is how a cup measure of flour could differ pretty significantly depending if the flour is densely packed or sifted. With weighing, that is never an issue. When measuring something like brown sugar, our recipes always say "lightly packed" when using a cup measure, but what does that mean exactly? My "lightly packed" cup of sugar may weigh an ounce more than yours! | |||
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| Banned for showing his ass |
Interesting. We have a lot of Italian plum trees on our property (the plums have fallen and all eaten now by the raccoons) but next year I will have to try making Plum Duff (pudd'n). | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine  |
Roast beef? The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine |
My mother's family makes plum pudding at Christmas. It is a plum duff, a sort of a steamed cake with fruit. Oddly, the one they make has no plums but does have raisins and currants. (Maybe it was a substitution for plums some generations back? Who knows?) It is good. We serve it with a rum and sugar sauce. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Baroque Bloke |
I’ve always thought that Steak and Kidney Pie would likely be tasty. But it wasn’t mentioned in the link in my OP. And not, until now, in this thread either. https://www.google.com/amp/s/w...nd-kidney-pie-138782 Serious about crackers | |||
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Raptorman |
What about Blancmange? ____________________________ Eeewwww, don't touch it! Here, poke at it with this stick. | |||
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| Baroque Bloke |
That sounds rather like Spotted Dick, mentioned in the article linked in my OP. Serious about crackers | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine |
Yeah, sort of, but this is a very dark colored pudding, with molasses and brown sugar, whereas I think spotted dick has a light colored cake. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven! |
What what I've read "Plum" is an archaic English term for any dried fruit, this stuff was all very expensive and often imported and not everyday food so that's why it was only featured for special occasions like Christmas. | |||
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| Banned for showing his ass |
We make a Jiggs dinner using the Old Port cured beef ... once in each November and December in honor of my father-in-law (who came here from Newfoundland). https://www.newfoundlandlabrad...dinner-for-beginners Love it ... ! | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine |
I didn't know that. Thanks. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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| half-genius, half-wit |
French muck. | |||
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Very neat! As an occasional amateur woodworker but frequent woodwork appreciator, I find the traditional Japanese temple construction fascinating and really beautiful. They use some amazingly complex decorative joints that are all cut the old way by hand. | |||
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