Measuring Cups are essential in baking and in life. Cooking allows for more variation, of course…you have the opportunity to taste as you go while cooking. Baking, however, is entirely different. First you decide what it is you want to make! Today let’s choose to bake a cake.
Then we often entrust that outcome to a recommended recipe—our own or one that has been referred to us by trusted friends or sources. Some of our favorite restaurants publish cookbooks that tantalize us with their tasty treats. Often donors to charities donate their favorite dessert recipes to be compiled into fund raiser cook books.
All this to say that we tend to follow a recipe, measuring ingredient by ingredient, paying particular attention to how many teaspoons of baking soda compared with how many cups of flour. A quarter teaspoon measurement for baking soda is equally important as a cup of flour, even though the measurements are not equal. It’s the combination that is essential to a great outcome.
