The Dinette Set by Julie Larson for July 28, 2023

My mother had recipes (handed down) like that. They worked for her? She made the best cookies and I got the recipe…I can’t decode it!

I have small measuring spoons labeled “Tad”, “Dash” and “Smidgen”. And isn’t a “jigger” a shot glass?

I thought all their cooking came from right out of the freezer or from a box.

no Ma, it’s a dot of mint…!

Who’s going to be the one to try that recipe?

Like Bullwinkle (when pressed by our government to produce his rocket fuel recipe): “I know how much, but I don’t know what of”………..

Remember the old They’ll Do It Every Time comic? I remember this one with the 2 cake-bakers.

Flora measures every drop. Flora’s is an awful flop!

Fauna tosses in each part. Fauna’s is a work of art!

So true!

Old recipe books (over 60 years ago, approximately) read like that a lot. It was one of the things that foundational chefs like Julia Child and Irma Rombauer tried to correct.

Understand how her daughter feels her dash’s and pinches could be entirely different

the fine print says: “If the cake is for Burl’s B-Day, add 3 sprigs of onion and one bunch of garlic”….!