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sasQuat-ch In reply to drrocket [2010-09-03 07:54:01 +0000 UTC]

I chose to serve it on whole-wheat pasta to feel waaaaaay better about the cream and butter

Other than that it was awesome (though I did feel like cheating on the garlic with the shallots )

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drrocket In reply to sasQuat-ch [2010-09-03 08:01:09 +0000 UTC]

LOLOLOL!!!

I, personally, find nothing at all to feel guilty about in eating something covered in a sauce that's 14,000 calories per teaspoon....

Ah well, shallots lend more delicacy of flavor but the substitution is perfectly acceptable.

As an aside, do you know why Americans use measurements like teaspoons of this or cups of that instead of weight and other volumetric measures as do most everyone else on the planet?

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sasQuat-ch In reply to drrocket [2010-09-03 08:07:42 +0000 UTC]

Must remember to schedule some down time on the stair-master.
But then again, why were butter and cream made if not to be enjoyed simultaneously

I think I'd like both alternatives. Shallots were all over the place in my pantry so it was easier to grab.

No actually, care to enlighten me?

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drrocket In reply to sasQuat-ch [2010-09-03 08:23:39 +0000 UTC]

Way back when Americans used the same measurement system for recipes as everyone else but that all changed when people began moving West across the Great Plains. Conestoga wagons had no suspension systems; ie, no springs. The types of scales people used relied on a very sharp fulcrum for proper and accurate operation and the vessels used for measuring liquids were usually made out of glass or ceramic. After bouncing around in the back of a wagon across a few hundred miles of Prairie the scales were destroyed and all the glass and china and crockery was broken.
BUT, the everyday spoons and cups the people took with them were made of metal and survived, so they converted their recipes to use measures in the things they had to measure with; teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, etc...

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sasQuat-ch In reply to drrocket [2010-09-03 08:36:08 +0000 UTC]

...would this answer belong to the same category as the one for "How the earth got its name"?
I can't really tell 'cus you're that convincing
(and because I can't seem to find the history to the imperial cooking measurements on the net)

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drrocket In reply to sasQuat-ch [2010-09-03 08:37:18 +0000 UTC]

!!!! and !

This story is true.

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