Measurement problems
Apr. 11th, 2006 01:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyOh damn damn damn.
I was poking through my various bread books on the shelf, looking for a basic bread recipe that did not use milk. Saw one. Oh yes, this is the book that I haven't used because it's British, so it's all in pints of water and pounds of flour.
So got![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
selenite to pull up conversions for me. Oh, the liquid measuring cup has pints on it anyway, so that's easy. And he gave me lbs to cups of flour.
Well, now that it's in the second rise (of 3), I am poking about and reading through more of the book - and I find a British-American conversion chart.
British pints are not the same as American pints. British tsp and tbsp are not the same as American tsp and tbsp.
So the bread will probably be awful.
DAMN.
I am considering hurling the book into the trash.
Now I need to start over finding a different milk-free recipe. Darn it, this one was appealing - it's a three-rise batter-rising recipe, a lot of work but it sounded like it would be really nice.
I was poking through my various bread books on the shelf, looking for a basic bread recipe that did not use milk. Saw one. Oh yes, this is the book that I haven't used because it's British, so it's all in pints of water and pounds of flour.
So got
selenite to pull up conversions for me. Oh, the liquid measuring cup has pints on it anyway, so that's easy. And he gave me lbs to cups of flour. Well, now that it's in the second rise (of 3), I am poking about and reading through more of the book - and I find a British-American conversion chart.
British pints are not the same as American pints. British tsp and tbsp are not the same as American tsp and tbsp.
So the bread will probably be awful.
DAMN.
I am considering hurling the book into the trash.
Now I need to start over finding a different milk-free recipe. Darn it, this one was appealing - it's a three-rise batter-rising recipe, a lot of work but it sounded like it would be really nice.
