"Jinx Minx" > wrote in message ...
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| "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
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| > I've got a recipe with this ingredient:
| > 2 cans water-packed chunk white chicken (10 oz.), drained.
| >
| > I'm planning to make half the recipe and I can't decide if that measure
| > as stated is to be 10 ounces total or 20 ounces (2 cans, 10 ounces each).
| > My chicken breast half weighs about 6.5 ounces and I'm trying to decide
| > what to do.
| >
| > I await your counsel. You've got until about 5:30 p.m., CDT.
| > T'anks.
| >
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| > Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
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| > Updated 4-24-2010 with food story and pictures
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| I say it's 10 oz. TOTAL. Weight designations after are commonly total
| cumulative weights. Much the same as the difference between "1 cup nuts,
| chopped" vs. "1 cup chopped nuts" or "1 tsp. cumin seed, ground" vs. "1 tsp
| ground cumin seed". I've always thought of recipes like that as saying, if
| you don't have 2 cans, use 10 oz. of whatever form you do have. When I
| write recipes, I write them that way to accommodate people that may not have
| access to the same igredients/brands as I do. Besides, both Chicken of the
| Sea and Starkist come in 5 oz and 12 oz cans, not 10 oz cans or even 9.x
| cans. Then again, I like my dishes with lots of protein so I'd probably use
| both cans even when halving the recipe.

She's talking about chicken, not tuna. The common chicken is Swanson, and
is indeed in a 9.75 oz package. BTW Chicken of the Sea does not package
chicken, in any weight.

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