STRICTLY FOR MEN

GOT TICKED off on
the carrot-cake recipe.
Chap very exercised
about “a square of
margarine”. Bellowed
down the blower about
how he buys his in a
tub, and that any
blockhead knows how
to measure with the
help of water in a cup.

Mr. McKenna, sir, many
of your sex have no more
idea of how to apply Ar-
chimedes’ principle to a
measure of margarine than
of how to keep the wax from
melting on their wings.
Anyway it was done in the
spirit of economy.

Economy of words, that is.

You see, I have to get all
this priceless advice into 450
words or less. It makes for
some very tight writing,
which is not a bad thing,
except when it leads to
obscurity like a “square of
margarine.” But if I had
written “a quarter-pound of

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margarine,” or “half a cup of
margarine” I'd have had to
put the metric equivalent
too, and there go a whole
bunch of words!

Mind you when I tried this
wheedle on the man on the
telephone he quite rightly
pointed out that if I hadn't
tried to be so cute over the
cow on the baking soda Id
have had words to spare for
the important stuff! This
man strikes me as one who
knows his way around the
range a lot better than most
of the cowboys I've dealt
with.

But it does underline ,the
business of measuring, and
gives me a reason to show off
a few short-cuts. Some of
these suggestions are not
only quicker ways to
measure certain substances,
but also save a lot of
washing-up. A pound block
of lard, butter, margarine,
contains two cups (500 mL),
so cutting it in halves or
quarters, or buying
margarine wrapped = in
quarters gives you a head
start and saves messing up a
measuring-cup.

The man with the tub of
shortening knows he can get

half a cup very easily by
filing the measuring-cup
half-full of cold .water and
adding material until it
measures a full cup, but he
has to be sure all his material
is submerged, eh? and then
he has to wash the cup.

And then he has to wash
his hands.

Remember, too, that a
half-pound, or “two squares”

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C3 - Sunday, August 1, 1982 - North Shore News

measure three times! Gosh,
the Metric Man must be in a
real swivet by this time!

Just trying to make life
easier for you, men.

(Speaking of making life
easier—a lady from Lynn
Valley called to say that
heretofore, when goimg on
holiday, she had
methodically stocked the
freezer with prepared meals
for the menfolk she left

food

of butter or margarine yields
16 Tablespoons. So if a
recipe wants three
Tablepoons of butter, it
seems to me simpler and
quicker to make appropriate
divisions with the point of a
knife and cut out a little
block rather than mashing
the stuff into a Tablespoon

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animal tallow. The eggs go on the market mid-August.

behind. This time, she's
leaving them a collection of
my recipes and the raw
materials, What a _ bold
expenment! She promises a
report.)

N.B. Due to a typo, an
earlier recipe for Carrot

s out of a job

Cake called for two squares
of margarine and one cup of
oil, but really, you only need
to add either the margarine
or the oil. Sorry for any
inconvenience.

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