June 23, 2012 - 6:17am
World's most imprecise cookie recipe ever (from King Arthur!)
I was looking for a recipe for a shortbread cookie on which to pile some of the fresh berries now coming in. perfect. As I often do, I went to my King Arthur Flour Cookbook first, and was startled to find the following ingredient:
1-1/2 to 3 cups flour
What? A variance of 100%?! I mean, we all know that volumes of flour are inexact (which is why I prefer recipes using weight, not volume), but this makes my grandmother's recipes sound like nuclear physics by comparison! (BTW, here's what I ended up [1] with, which turned out to be perfect)