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From: suze@terak.UUCP (Suzanne Barnett)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Re: How to measure shortening
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Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 11:37:19 EST
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> In article <1017@decwrl.UUCP>, kolling@decwrl.UUCP (Karen Kolling) writes:
> > 
> > Basic Physics I learned at my Aunt Ethel's knee:  you want a half cup
> > of shortening?  You fill a one-cup measuring cup half full of water and then 
> > keep plopping in shortening and holding it under with just the tip of a spoon
> > until the water level reaches one cup.  Drain.  Presto, one half cup of
> > shortening.
> 
> 	But if know how to fill the 1-cup measure half full of water,
> why not just fill it half full of shortening in the first place. ;-)

Because the t way mentioned is MUCH, MUCH easier, and you
don't sacrifice a lot of shortening to the sides of the
measuring cup.
-- 
Suzanne Barnett-Scott

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