RecipeMuncher

Photo by timlewisnm When you collect old cookbooks you come across strange instructions like, “Place in a quick oven” … “Bank the coals and move the pot to the back” … “Split the hog’s head down the middle”. (Yes, I’ve seen all of those.) But just recently I found a recipe that listed ingredients by weight. This is very unusual for an American cookbook. Listing ingredients by weight is much more common in most of the rest of the world. (...)