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My grandma's biscuit recipe called for 'a handful' of flour, so I weighed it out of curiosity. It was 8 ounces exactly.
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oscarc535mo ago
Honestly, my grandma's "pinch" of salt was a whole teaspoon.
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shane_fisher375mo ago
Whoa, that's not a pinch, that's a full-on assault! @oscarc53, my grandma was the exact same way, her "dash" of pepper would make you sneeze for a week. I guess they just had a totally different idea of what those words meant. Do you think food just tasted saltier back then or something?
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rosebarnes4mo ago
Wait, are we really acting like a teaspoon of salt in a whole pot of something is that dramatic? Let's be real, unless grandma was making a single serving of soup, that teaspoon got spread out across the whole dish. I've definitely accidentally dumped way more than a "pinch" of salt into a pot of chili and it turned out fine, just had to serve it with a big glass of water. Honestly, the real crime was probably the salt content in everything else we ate back then, not one recipe's measurements.
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