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Default Joy of Cooking question - cookie estimates

On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 13:55:43 -0800 (PST), wrote:

>I made pfeffernusse cookies for Christmas and while I admit the batter amounts may have been a tiny amount more than 1 inch across (1 inch was the recommendation), the recipe indicated, I think, that I should have gotten more than 100 cookies. It was just over 30. Each finished cookie melted, of course, and was thus 2 inches in diameter.
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>I swear, this estimate discrepancy happens a LOT in that book with cookies - and maybe others as well. Does anyone know more about this? Thanks.
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>Lenona.


check the front of the book. It should tell you how the measurements
were made for the recipes in the book.
Janet US