re: #147 allegro

Oh wow. Measurements? That’s a thing?

Mr. C. is a decent cook and a pretty good baker. But he’s totally into having exactly one cup of flour or whatever. He needs a recipe to follow. I’m a little, shall we say, looser in my cooking. Not too long after we were married he wanted to try making bread from my grandmother’s recipe. As he followed it to the letter, I tried to point out that the ratio of water and flour depends on the amount of moisture in the flour so he had to adjust. He thought the recipe was the law and I had to point out that this was my paternal grandmother’s recipe, so when my mother wanted to make that bread she had to ask for the recipe-which her mother-in-law had to reverse engineer from “well you fill this bowl with flour to about here and then…
There was no perfected recipe that leapt into being fully formed.
Mr. C. has loosened up in his cooking style over the years.