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Default French yogurt cake recipe in "Bringing Up Bebe"


"Lenona" > wrote in message
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On May 16, 2:45 pm, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
> On May 16, 10:05 am, Lenona > wrote:
>
> > Only trouble was, I made it this morning and it seems that either
> > Druckerman forgot to say that one should use TWO loaf pans (I haven't
> > tried using a 9-inch cake pan yet), OR she should have said to bake it
> > for about 90 minutes, not 45! Of course, I kept testing it with a
> > knife - about three times in all - so it came out fine.

>
> I can guess at the root cause: Individual yogurts in France are
> 100-125 grams, so only half a cup. This could make a much larger
> amount of batter depending on the size of the yogurt cup you used,
> because everything is scaled to the size of the yogurt cup.


So you're saying that a French yogurt container is NEVER equal to 6
fluid ounces - and one that weighs 125 grams would not equal enough
milliliters to make 6 fluid ounces? I don't have a scale that's that
good (though I have plenty of measuring cups) so I wouldn't know how
to make the conversion from weight to volume.

Lenona.

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Based on 1 litre of water weighing 1 Kilo then 125 grams = 125 millilitres
of water which using "metric cups" would be half a cup. And a google
conversion says 125 grams of water would equal 4.23 fluid ounces

Yoghurt may weigh less or more by volume than water.

Mike