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Post by deepfriednew101 on Dec 30, 2021 21:11:59 GMT 1
My simple Math puts the Spices and Herbs at 10g per 100 Grams of flour ?
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Post by Silver on Dec 30, 2021 21:22:27 GMT 1
My simple Math puts the Spices and Herbs at 10g per 100 Grams of flour ? Correct! But this is scaled from a recipe purportedly sourced from a wife of the very CHS himself, through a nephew who went rummaging through her attic. And the only way to boost it even higher is to presume that 'Ts' means Tablespoons instead of Teaspoons. Note that only H&S are being summed. MSG is not, as it wasn't even present within the Ledington recipe. |
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Post by flg on Dec 30, 2021 23:08:04 GMT 1
My simple Math puts the Spices and Herbs at 10g per 100 Grams of flour ? Correct! But this is scaled from a recipe purportedly sourced from a wife of the very CHS himself, through a nephew who went rummaging through her attic. And the only way to boost it even higher is to presume that 'Ts' means Tablespoons instead of Teaspoons. Note that only H&S are being summed. MSG is not, as it wasn't even present within the Ledington recipe. You are just under 20g H&S for 200g flour. So your ratio is right if looking for 10g into 100g. |
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Post by Silver on Dec 30, 2021 23:11:24 GMT 1
If the Ledington recipe is official, and it traces back to CHS, it must date to pre-1955 (or was that 1952?). The reason for this is the lack of MSG. Someone should have it carbon dated.
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Post by Silver on Jan 1, 2022 14:07:57 GMT 1
So 21.6g of White Pepper and 5.25g Black Pepper in 2 cups of flour? I can't believe that the Chicago Tribune staff actually added that much pepper to 2 cups of flour and then proclaimed the Chicken to taste even better than KFC (particularly after sprinkling on some MSG). Sometimes I wonder if I'm adding too much Pepper when I add 3.1 grams of White Pepper and 2.4 grams of Black Pepper to ~1.6 cups of Cake Flour. I calculate the Tablespoons in Ledington's at 20.25 grams White and 6.75 grams of black respectively, which when scaled down to ~1.6 cups (from 2 cups) becomes: 1.6/2 x 20.25 = 16.2 grams of White Pepper in 200 grams of Cake Flour (~1.6 cups) 1.6/2 x 6.75 = 5.4 grams of Black Pepper in 200 grams of Cake Flour (~1.6 cups) 'Ts' must mean Teaspoons, and not Tablespoons. 21.6 total grams of Pepper in 2 cups of Flour would likely send anyone through the roof. FYI, a Note of trivia: Cake flour is lighter in weight by volume than All Purpose flour due to having less protein. 200 grams of All purpose flour is ~1.5 cups. Note 2: Cups as I mention them are United States cups. Metric Cups have ~5.3% more volume, such that for metric: 1 Metric cup of Cake Flour = ~132 grams (vs. ~125 grams US) 1 Metric cup of AP Flour = ~140 grams (vs. ~133 grams US) |
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Post by flg on Jan 1, 2022 16:28:36 GMT 1
'Ts' must mean Teaspoons, and not Tablespoons. 21.6 total grams of Pepper in 2 cups of Flour would likely send anyone through the roof.
I have been saying the above since I started working on this adventure. It just makes absolute sense.
To me pepper is one if not the main player in the end result. However, I am running 5.5g into 200g and have repeatedly claimed I should lower pepper somewhat. I did post a chart on another thread where I posted amounts of pepper from other popular recipes. But if you go back to the analysis on 99x. Given it was acknowledged that it was hard to untangle the white from black exact amounts. It was felt to represent the overall pepper. Scaled in grams it would look like:
White Pepper 5.5g
Black Pepper 2.75g
The original poster suggested a rounding of 6g and 3.g. But that's for a 26g 400g recipe. For our smaller 200g recipe it's more like:
White Pepper 3g
Black Pepper 1.5g
Albeit you could argue the ratio of White/Black Pepper. The overall amount would be 4.5g. And as I posted above, I have been holding at 5.5g for a while now.
Interestingly enough, If I go back and look at my "less is more recipe". Which followed the weights of the 26oz bag. I had set total pepper @ 4.0g. Without rounding the 99-x is just a hair over 4g for our 200g recipes.
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