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Post by cfrosty on Sept 9, 2016 19:17:10 GMT -5
Hi, I am transferring recipes to MasterCook and ran across this Chocolate Chip Cookie recipe by kayaksoup. The amount for salt has a symbol in it. I was wondering if anyone knew what the missing amount is. Thanks. Carrie
Originally Posted by Kayaksoup
Chocolate Chip Cookies
3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened 1 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1 egg 2 tsp vanilla extract 2 cups all purpose flour 2 tsp cornstarch 1 tsp baking soda � tsp salt 8 oz bittersweet chocolate, cut into chunks (I use bittersweet choc. chips)
Directions: 1.Preheat oven to 350 F. 2.Cream together butter and sugars until smooth. Add egg and vanilla and blend in. 3.Stir in flour, cornstarch, baking soda and salt. Stir in chocolate chunks. 4.Drop by tablespoons onto a greased baking sheet and bake for 8-10 minutes, until golden brown around the edges. 5.Let cool slightly and enjoy.
The cornstarch makes them crisp yet chewy. I don't know how to describe it. And they are soooo easy to make
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Post by peachesncream on Sept 9, 2016 22:43:41 GMT -5
I found the recipe in a thread about Best Cookie Jar Cookies. The thread is dated 3/30/04. I found it by using the special google search for CL recipes.
The amount of salt is 1/2 teaspoon.
(I hate it when those weird signs show up in place of amounts. In my experience that happens to fractions when something is changed in the boards - updates are made to the software or something, and those fractions become symbols.)
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Recipe By :Kayaksoup adapted from an Anna Olson recipe Serving Size : 24 Preparation Time :0:00 Categories :
-------- ------------ -------------------------------- 3/4 cup unsalted butter -- softened 1 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup granulated sugar 1 egg 2 tsp vanilla extract 2 cups all purpose flour 2 teaspoons cornstarch 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 10 ounces bittersweet chocolate -- cut into chunks
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Post by Catbatty on Sept 10, 2016 16:52:51 GMT -5
I think that anything one program uses and another doesn't understand may, when converted to text, produce a question mark. (Edited to add: they can be degree symbols and apostrophes and accents and other stuff, too...but what we are talking here is when they are standing in for amounts/measurements.)
Reason I figured it was 1/2 is...it made sense to me that would be what they would use. But say, when converting an ebook or pdf to text, those single digit fractions (a friend told me that they are called vulgar fractions--for all I know that was his own word for them...he hates them, too) they change to question marks soon as you convert to plain text. We have to then go look at the original epub or pdf and see what they were before converted and they are anything...1/16 .... on up, until a whole 1. (and, in my experience, it matters not if the next text is tsp or t. or teaspoon or tab or T. or tablespoon, etc...same with cups (in any way that word is represented). 1/3 and 2/3 are often that way. But so are 1/4 and 1/2. I've seen 1/32. My point is...and this is my belief only: never assume what that question mark means because it's never the same thing once converted to another output.In my recipe stuff, they are always beneath the whole number 1 when they are talking measures. The reason I am saying all this is: I want to make sure as best I can, that nobody cooks with or re-writes and shares a recipe, that is based on the thought that those dang question marks always mean a certain fraction, because they don't -- not in my experience or any of my longtime friends who convert text from programs to plain text. (The problem and the chat about these rotten fractions -- the one digit ones, has been going on for years in groups I belong to. We are a bunch of recipe folks and we need to convert things we find out there in the world, into plain text...say in order to import into our Mastercook program...or use a free program a friend made, called RecipeClips. It can't work with vulgar fractions....and time we get text made over into plain text required, we find lots of question marks...so we have to go find the source and re-type.)
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Post by cfrosty on Sept 10, 2016 21:57:38 GMT -5
Thank you so much, Peachesncream. Sometimes that search works for me and sometimes it doesn't. I have found for me it's easier to go to Google and type in the recipe then add Cooking Light community. I've had a couple recipes that I had to hunt down that way today. I finally found the full recipe for Breakfast Bars - Nancy Silverton which had a bunch of those quirky symbols in it. Looks like I need to find that thread "Best Jar Cookies" and go thru that one. CattBatty-I need to go thru the recipes I saved to MasterCook and clean up any of those symbols before CL shuts down the message board. Thanks for the information!
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Post by Catbatty on Sept 11, 2016 2:32:02 GMT -5
Thank you so much, Peachesncream. Sometimes that search works for me and sometimes it doesn't. I have found for me it's easier to go to Google and type in the recipe then add Cooking Light community. I've had a couple recipes that I had to hunt down that way today. I finally found the full recipe for Breakfast Bars - Nancy Silverton which had a bunch of those quirky symbols in it. Looks like I need to find that thread "Best Jar Cookies" and go thru that one. CattBatty-I need to go thru the recipes I saved to MasterCook and clean up any of those symbols before CL shuts down the message board. Thanks for the information! I suspect, when you go see where you got them from, that you will find the question marks there, too. However, I don't think they will hurt or corrupt your Mastercook cookbook. (What can corrupt a cookbook is: putting too many words in the Yield field, for instance. That little area is not designed for a bunch of words describing the yield amount. It wants '1 cup' or '1 dozen' or '1 pie' ... not: "'2 pie crusts or 15 tart shells or 30 appetizers." So, when you have long Makes or Yield lines, just put those down in a Direction cell and then pick the one you really think makes sense and put that up in the Yield area.) The problem with the darned question marks is when we want to cook something...or go to share a recipe. We see the botched amount (it might be for an ingredient that is really critical that it be accurate). By that time everything halts to a stop sometimes. We may have no trail back to the real recipe...or the person who posted it--who probably doesn't even KNOW that their text editor churned out the question mark instead of a number. They might not even see it on their own screens...because, THEIR own software has it as a fraction on their screen. I use a non-Mastercook, user-made program for prepping large groups of recipes before they are imported *into* Mastercook. (RecipeClips) That user-made program requires ingredient lines to begin with a number unless they are some words programmed to be recognized, like an ingredient section's Subtitle. If it meets up with a question mark at the beginning of a line that tells it that something is reallllllly wrong with the recipe....it stops working on ANY of the group and reject them all. That is a PITA.
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Post by sallyt on Sept 11, 2016 6:20:58 GMT -5
that's so funny - I wanted to save the same recipe, and found a similar one online, so figured 1/4 t - but that seems too little anyway!
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