• frank@sopuli.xyz
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    14 hours ago

    If you look up cooking or baking recipes and get American ones you’ll see oz a lot, I have found

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      14 hours ago

      Baking is a big one yes. Not just American recipes - old British ones too. And there are various useful estimations you can use too; one egg is about an ounce. Three ounces each of flour, sugar, butter plus three eggs makes a pretty good Victoria sponge which fits nicely in a 12cm baking tin.

      The madness continues