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Default "Pinch of" vs. "Dash of" vs. "Muddy"

On 1/22/2013 1:48 PM, sf wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:28:09 -0500, "Christopher M."
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> Some other common terms for ingredient sizes are "pinch", and "dash", and
>> "hunk of".

>
> What always confounds me is when a recipe calls for a "knob" of
> butter. What size knob are we talking about... a doorknob?
>

A walnut.