Those Homemade CookbooksIn 1996, after my dad died, I made cookbooks for various family members. The books were three...
Those Homemade Cookbooks! 898rummaged among random neurons and opined: This year, I printed my cookbook (Now You're Cooking), which has 30 years plus...
Fifty was a while back for me. Day after tomorrow is 56. I'm not looking forward to it.
I don't know what your problem is with your Mom's fruitcake recipe. If you are going to make meatballs, and have a recipe for 20, then if you want 40 or 10, just double or halve the ingredients. Not a problem. Not so simple with meatloaf. The directions for cooking won't be the same if you double or halve. Meatloaf is pretty forgiving, though. Most people don't advise scaling baking recipes, unless you know what you are doing. The leavening, baking time and baking temperature all vary according to size of what you are making. Still, if you have a recipe for one cake, and you want two, just double the ingredients. The recipe should be the same. If you have a recipe for two cakes, and you only want one, just cut the ingredients in half. It should be fine. I think that fruitcake is more forgiving than most baking. You've already posted that you might do muffin tins and coffee cans. If you are using the same recipe for both, then the whole scaling thing is already out the window. If your Mom's recipe makes 8 loaves, and you just want two, then cut all the ingredients by four. I'm not the baker in the family, but I made fruitcake once. I did muffin tins and bread pans at the same time. I just took out the muffin tins a whole lot earlier.
-- Dan Abel Petaluma, California, USA
