12. How many tablespoonfuls of water to a cup?
(These relative measures are convenient for dividing recipes.)
13. Measure a level tablespoonful of flour, by filling the spoon, holding it level, and leveling the flour by running the back of the knife quickly from the base of the bowl of the spoon to the tip.
How can you most accurately divide this in halves? In quarters?
14. How much does a cup of flaked cereal weigh?
15. How much does a cup of granular cereal weigh?
16. Butter is hard to measure in a cup. If a recipe calls for 1⁄4 cup butter, it is easier to measure it by tablespoonfuls. Find out how many make 1⁄4 cup.
17. How much does a cup of butter weigh? If you know this, you can weigh it, instead of measuring, or if your butter is in pound “pats,” you will be able to cut off a cupful, instead of weighing it.
18. An old-fashioned recipe for sponge cake reads thus: Take the weight of the eggs in sugar and half their weight in flour. Translate this into measures.
Preparing and mixing.—Food materials that are not to be mixed with others still need special preparation before heat is applied.