[Homestead] Jammin'
EarthNSky
erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Wed Jun 17 12:46:57 EDT 2009
Y'all had me thinking that I am losing my mind, so I did a bit of
research. I found quite a few references to cooking by weight instead
of by cups. At first, I was thinking it might be just a Southern thing,
but then I found this page from the UK talking about preserving raspberries.
http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/preserve-rasberries-dessert-recipe.htm
"Take the weight of your Rasberries in fine Sugar..."
Of course, the best example is probably the old fashioned pound
cake....a pound of flour, a pound of butter, a pound of eggs, a pound of
sugar.
Bev, who just finished making and canning a small batch of pear butter
from last year's frozen pears. If it doesn't set up right, I'll just
call it spiced pear sauce<g>. I love the sound of lids popping.
VAN DELL JORDAN wrote:
> -- On Wed, 6/17/09, EarthNSky <erthnsky at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>> The only reason I can come up with as to why it would be in weight
>> might be due to sugar shortages during the war/Depression. I guess
>> they set up weight ratios to make it easier..I don't know. I
>> don't know if that would be easier even. There must be a reason
>> though.
>>
>
> I don't remember the old timers weighing stuff that much, but weight
> is a more accurate way to measure things that can be packed such as
> flour and sugar, especially brown sugar. I guess that would include
> the berries.
>
> Seems to me there is a trend to measuring by weight instead of volume
> in recipes, especially in the metric world.
>
> Van Dell
>
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