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Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 days agoA couple of decades back, I was editing a column with a recipe that lacked the unit for salt. This was on deadline, so I deduced from where it was compared with other ingredients that it was 1/4 cup.
Now, no reasonable person is going to use 1/4 cup of salt in anything on a household scale. But I wasn’t really having my cooking hat on, and the proofer didn’t catch it.
The number of complaints we got was somewhat comical. “Too salty; inedible,” usw.
It of course called for 1/4 tsp.
MudMan@fedia.io 3 days ago
Hah. Shocked that you didn't just take the easy way out and wrote "salt to taste".
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 days ago
It was between the flour and the water, so while one could sprinkle salt on at the end, it seemed central to the process.