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Ingredient List On allrecipes.com. What?

CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 17:31:50 GMT

I was on allrecipes.com looking for a quick blueberry cake. Been on that site before and over 50 yrs. have read thousans of recipes. Some of ingredients list threw me.

2 Eggs, whole. raw, fresh. As oppossed to hard boiled egss for a cake

1 cup milk, fluid. Again, as oppossed to what, ice cream.

1 Cup water, municipal. OK.

It was strange to say the least. Even a beginner would know the eggs would be raw.

Re: Ingredient List On allrecipes.com. What?

grandma2pkmh — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 17:39:01 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 Have you ever seen "Worst Cooks in America" on Food Network? Some of them need to be told these things.

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EatWell — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:38:00 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
I was on allrecipes.com looking for a quick blueberry cake. Been on that site before and over 50 yrs. have read thousans of recipes. Some of ingredients list threw me.

2 Eggs, whole. raw, fresh. As oppossed to hard boiled egss for a cake

1 cup milk, fluid. Again, as oppossed to what, ice cream.

1 Cup water, municipal. OK.

It was strange to say the least. Even a beginner would know the eggs would be raw.

@CrazyKittyLvr2

Wow. 50 years on Allrecipes.com? Remarkable. 👏

I know the current Allrecipes.com was founded in 1997 after the co-founder had trouble finding his favorite cookie recipe on the Internet. Celebrating 23 years of existence in 2020.

The recipie is very clear to me, I have made this recipe several times. . And no confusion with the instructions. Cake came out beautifully. 👍

Maybe that's just me. Maybe for those who's English is their second language might have trouble understanding the instructions? JMO.

Please report back how your cake turned out.

~Put food in front of me, and I will eat it.~

Re: Ingredient List On allrecipes.com. What?

CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:00:31 GMT

@EatWell My error. I know it hasn't been around for 50 yrs. It should have been I've been on this site before. Period. Over 50 yrs. I have read thousands of recipes. Period.

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Pook — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:04:11 GMT

Sounds to me like a recipe from another country translated. I have seen British recipes that were rather odd like that to.

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Kachina624 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 18:10:54 GMT

@Pook That was my thought too. Sounds like something was translated too literally.

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noodleann — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:09:22 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 wrote:
@EatWell My error. I know it hasn't been around for 50 yrs. It should have been I've been on this site before. Period. Over 50 yrs. I have read thousands of recipes. Period.

I got that from your post. No error. Petunia's pal doesn't make mistakes.

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:11:10 GMT

@noodleann lo. I wish.

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noodleann — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:11:24 GMT

What's funny to me is specifying "municipal" water. The only reason I could think of is the fact that well water can be high in minerals, and that might alter the outcome of the recipe.

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ECBG — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:30:13 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 I know what you're saying, but with so many products out there, what is "common sense" to one person, may be bewilderment to someone else.

Milk also comes in dry form and there are many varieties of milk from whipping cream to skim.

My concern is since cake mixes have been so widely used for decades, will someone trying to cook know to sift the flour?

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noodleann — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:46:54 GMT

"1 cup milk, fluid."

Funny it doesn't specify cow versus goat versus oat, almond, walnut, etc.

Doesn't say whether it should be whole, or if 2%, 1%, or skim is okay. Often it can make a difference.

Just "fluid." Very odd.

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CrazyKittyLvr2 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 19:51:15 GMT

@ECBG I get what you are saying. When a recipe calls for sugar, unless it states brown sugar or other specific sugar product, I use plain old white sugar.

Same with milk, unless it says powered. whipping cream, skim, I use plain old fluid white milk.

I figure it's the most obvious ingredient unless otherwise stated.

The municipal water completely had me puzzled. Yeah, I guess you could use bottled, it was strange.

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on the bay — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 20:16:21 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2 -

Well, whatever the reason, I got a laugh out of your post and remarks!

So thank you.

And I know you have declined our expectations of a book, you have a great sense of dry humor and a way with words for sure!

Recipes unite lol!

Re: Ingredient List On allrecipes.com. What?

GingerPeach — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 20:25:47 GMT

@CrazyKittyLvr2

You made me curious, so I looked at a few of the blueberry cake recipes on All Recipes and the ones I saw described the eggs as raw, fresh and included other descriptors such as the ones below. It may be they are just protecting themselves from complaints or misunderstandings.

¼ teaspoon Salt, table
2 teaspoons Leavening agents, baking powder, double-acting, sodium aluminum sulfate
⅓ cup Shortening, household, soybean (hydrogenated)-cottonseed (hydrogenated)
¾ cup Milk, reduced fat, fluid, 2% milkfat, with added vitamin A

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Sooner — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 20:30:54 GMT

Nothing wrong with making instructions clearer. Especially since we have many people living here now who weren't raised in this country as well as a lot of 20 somethings who have never cooked before.

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millieshops — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 22:34:04 GMT

Almost sounds as if it was written in another country but I can't imagine whiat country!

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jannabelle1 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 23:33:00 GMT

@EatWell, why the need to call out the OP? I understood that she's been on the recipe site before and has also been looking at recipes for over 50 years. The OP has always posted here with kind words, and honestly didn't need to called out like that. Also, was it really necessary to tell her to report back how the cake turned out? There's just no need to talk to people like that. Have a nice evening.

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Silver Fox1 — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 23:52:38 GMT

@noodleann wrote:
What's funny to me is specifying "municipal" water. The only reason I could think of is the fact that well water can be high in minerals, and that might alter the outcome of the recipe.

It srtikes me that anyone who is so stupid that they need a reciepe written out in this kind of detail would never know what "municipal water" is, hilarious !

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Razzy 7 — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 16:46:05 GMT

Oppossed?

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proudlyfromNJ — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 17:02:43 GMT

@Pook wrote:
Sounds to me like a recipe from another country translated. I have seen British recipes that were rather odd like that to.

@Pook Definitely sounds like it's been translated from another language. Some translations can sound a bit weird when changed to English.