🍳 Doubling a Recipe Calculator
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| Original Measure | Doubled (Imperial) | Metric Equiv. | Doubled (Metric) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/8 tsp | 1/4 tsp | 0.6 mL | 1.25 mL |
| 1/4 tsp | 1/2 tsp | 1.25 mL | 2.5 mL |
| 1/2 tsp | 1 tsp | 2.5 mL | 5 mL |
| 1 tsp | 2 tsp | 5 mL | 10 mL |
| 1 tbsp | 2 tbsp | 15 mL | 30 mL |
| 2 tbsp | 1/4 cup | 30 mL | 60 mL |
| 1/4 cup | 1/2 cup | 59 mL | 118 mL |
| 1/3 cup | 2/3 cup | 79 mL | 158 mL |
| 1/2 cup | 1 cup | 118 mL | 237 mL |
| 3/4 cup | 1.5 cups | 177 mL | 355 mL |
| 1 cup | 2 cups | 237 mL | 473 mL |
| 1 pint | 1 quart | 473 mL | 946 mL |
| Unit | Equals |
|---|---|
| 3 tsp | 1 tbsp |
| 4 tbsp | 1/4 cup |
| 16 tbsp | 1 cup |
| 2 cups | 1 pint |
| 2 pints | 1 quart |
| 4 quarts | 1 gallon |
| 1 oz (weight) | 28.35 g |
| 1 lb | 454 g |
| Original | Recommended 2x |
|---|---|
| 1/4 tsp baking soda | 3/8 tsp |
| 1/2 tsp baking soda | 3/4 tsp |
| 1 tsp baking soda | 1.5 tsp |
| 1 tsp baking powder | 1.5 tsp |
| 2 tsp baking powder | 3 tsp |
| 1/2 tsp salt | 3/4 tsp |
| 1 tsp salt | 1.5–2 tsp |
| 1 tsp spice/herb | 1.5 tsp |
| Ingredient | 1 Cup (g) | 1 Tbsp (g) | Doubled 1 Cup |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-Purpose Flour | 120 g | 7.5 g | 240 g |
| Granulated Sugar | 200 g | 12.5 g | 400 g |
| Brown Sugar (packed) | 220 g | 13.8 g | 440 g |
| Powdered Sugar | 120 g | 7.5 g | 240 g |
| Butter (softened) | 227 g | 14 g | 454 g |
| Cocoa Powder | 100 g | 6.3 g | 200 g |
| Honey / Maple Syrup | 340 g | 21 g | 680 g |
| Rolled Oats | 90 g | 5.6 g | 180 g |
| Milk / Buttermilk | 245 g | 15 g | 490 g |
| Vegetable Oil | 218 g | 13.6 g | 436 g |
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Tart with mushrooms deserves attention as another good idea for a dish. One prepares it by means of thin sheets from puff pastry, covered with mild Gruyère cheese and fried mushrooms, later one bakes it until crispy and brown. The French name is “Tarte or Champignons of Paris“.
It looks like simple potato tart, but with tasty flavor.
Fast food always helps. One can prepare kebabs in only 25 minutes. The version inspired by Iran uses seasoned ground beef, served on cold yogurt sauce.
There are also creamy white beans with taste of cacio e pepe, which requires only 20 minutes and four ingredients. Such simple and easy dishes answer four an evening meal.
The Basque cake is that brown, creamy kind from San Sebastián in Spain. It has a pure and simple style. Baking of bread opens a whole world.
Recipe for bread on poolish is classic and works well for tries. Some bakers create freely with raised dough, resulting in breads with figs and nuts. Here is even a Recipe for raised bread with roasted wheat germ and honey.
One kind of bread carries 80% medium rye flour and 20% buckwheat, with 60% of the rye pre-fermented in biga.
To adjust recipes to bigger amounts, there are useful tools. Their changers allow one to multiply or share a Recipe according to different portions. Changing of parts works by means of entering the original and wanted number of portions, and the right multiplier calculates itself.
A smart fraction system rounds decimals to usual cooking fractions, like half or quarter. Because in baking precise measurement matters, one can turn off fraction rounding to get accurate decimals.
Finding the size of portions can be hard. One way is to weigh the whole dish and share according to the pointed number of portions. For things like brownies or cake, cutting of pieces equally big helps to keepeverything fair.
Making a Recipe from nothing requires real work. That means preparing the dish many times, changing what needs fixing, retrying and noting every stage, so that the result is repeatable. Apps like SuperCook or Cookpad allow one to enter the available ingredients and then offer fitting recipes.
That is useful, when the fridge looks full of chaos.
