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And how did they ever bake cakes in Europe? Did they have baking soda or powder?
estimating??? Just like many still do today
And yeast. Or sour dough or any other fermenting item if they didnt have i’d assume
I don’t use measuring cups normally… I just make sure the batter looks right. I think they did have baking soda.
Measuring devices predate most surviving written records (okay, that’s cheating since a cup may last thousands of years, and most writing materials survive centuries at best). The oldest measuring cup predates the oldest surviving recipes.
I can tell the tempature in my house without a thermostadt. With a little practice you can get knowledge of weights and measures fairly easy
They estimated the amounts just like any serious cook does today. There where no Susie F cookbooks asking for 1/8 cup of pine nuts or 1/2 cup of pomegranate seeds or sundried tomatoes. Life anmd cooking were much simpler.
they used measurements like kzayis
Baking unlike cooking is a precise business you can’t guesstimate it’s not so much a recipe as it is a formula.
Torah
In the Torah they already had measuring cups. ???, ???…
There absolutely had to be measures of some type, or there would be no halachos pertaining to weights and measure. Whether they conformed to the measuring utensils we use today – that I cannot say. Probably not.
They ate the whole cow.
They measured with their eyes, like I do, and then they made a cup to the right size and used it from then on.
This question makes no sense. Measuring cups by definition are used to measure a standard, agreed-upon measurement. That measurement could not have been agreed upon unless someone had a cup which held that amount, or was marked off to show that amount. Once you have one, you can make a million.
Unless you’re asking how people measured ingredients for recipes before they had standards for measurements. I presume they had to test proportions (5 horns of black pepper to 1 1/2 conch shells of baking soda) until they found something that worked, which is the same thing they do nowadays.
The better question is, how did they know if people were fat before BMI was invented?
They saw how much yiras shomayim they had.
They used measuring cups in the Beis Hamikdash. Pashut P’shat in the Mishnayos and Gemaros in Menachos is taht the sizes are D’oraisa.
I always assumed they weighed their ingredients
Also the gemara in ???? ?? ?? talks about the use of measuring cups on yom tov
I have seen a very old cookbook and it uses eggshells as a measurement
As in : “2 eggshells of oil”
Interesting
“And how did they ever bake cakes in Europe? Did they have baking soda or powder”
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Yes, in Europe people had and still have baking soda, powder, yeast,
To measure flour, sugar or water they use a glass (half glass). To measure oil – table spoon. To measure salt – tea spoon. To measure butter – grams (the measurement of weight).
Every recipe in a cook book has measurements of the country, where book published.
I have seen a very old cookbook and it uses eggshells as a measurement
As in : “2 eggshells of oil”
Interesting
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Today, some measurements mentioned in Torah, compared to the size of the egg – to give us a clue of the size
Torah613Torah – My comment was said tongue-in-cheek. I didn’t think they actually used conch shells either.
I saw this in Ruchoma Shain ?”?’s book, All for the Boss:
She was describing life in Mir, Europe in letters to her parents. She was explaining her language barrier problems:
…I asked her for simple instructions in cooking. “How muuch salt?” I asked. Her terse answer was, “A chuch.” For my question on the amount of sugar, “A hoifen” and for liquid, “A shpritz.”
I finally got up enough courage to ask … chuch – a pinch of salt; hoifen – a handful of sugar; shpritz – a few drops of any liquid. I am still experimenting with these measurements, but my food does not always taste the way it should…
Chapter 16 – Letter 3 (Page 231 in the newly expanded edition)
Well, I assume they had some sort of measuring utensils, but they didn’t always use them. And people today still use the above measurements.
SiDi™
If your food doesn’t taste right, try wearing gloves.
rebyidd23, don’t eat your food wth your fingers, eat your fingers separately…
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Know that. Command or statement?
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