Atch
14 Mar 2021
Food / Request for cake or pastry recipe for an elderly Polish lady [20]
When I was about thirteen, I decided to have a go at making shortbread, but having an aversion to maths in any form, I refused to use the weighing scales (nearly as bad as the Americans!). I looked in an ancient cookery book of my granny's and found the approximate measurements for the flour, sugar etc in spoons. Can't remember what I did about the butter etc. Anyway, I ended up putting so much sugar in it that I couldn't get it out of the tin, let alone cut it and my sister had to come to the rescue and smash it with a hammer! Next time I tried, I used so much butter that we could literally pour the shortbread out of the tin - and it was at that point dear reader, that I finally gave in and learned the art of reading a scales :))
A (very) heaped tablespoon is about an ounce though,
When I was about thirteen, I decided to have a go at making shortbread, but having an aversion to maths in any form, I refused to use the weighing scales (nearly as bad as the Americans!). I looked in an ancient cookery book of my granny's and found the approximate measurements for the flour, sugar etc in spoons. Can't remember what I did about the butter etc. Anyway, I ended up putting so much sugar in it that I couldn't get it out of the tin, let alone cut it and my sister had to come to the rescue and smash it with a hammer! Next time I tried, I used so much butter that we could literally pour the shortbread out of the tin - and it was at that point dear reader, that I finally gave in and learned the art of reading a scales :))