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"Pete C." > wrote:

> Jinx Minx wrote:
> >
> > "Melba's Jammin'" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > 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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> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Jinx
>
> I'm going for 20oz total since the (10 oz) is in parens so modifies the
> "cans water packed chunk white chicken", as well as someone noted at
> least one brand with cans near 10 oz size.

Thanks. In putting the recipe together, I can see that 10 ounces will
probably do it for half the recipe.


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Updated 4-24-2010 with food story and pictures