"pavane" > wrote in message
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>
> "Jinx Minx" > wrote in message
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> |
> | "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.
> | >
> | > --
> | > Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
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> | > Updated 4-24-2010 with food story and pictures
> |
> | 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.
>
> pavane
>
>

Sorry. I saw "2 cans water packed chunk white..." and my mind went
immediately to tuna. Nevertheless, I stand by my assertion that the recipe
calls for 10 oz. total.

Jinx.