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Thur Cooking fo r kids kt V 1901 SA N D Y ( O f * ) POST 5 Birds are fall pests Measuring teaches fractions Part 2 in a series N o I E IO PARENTS This article explains the art of So when you follow a recipe to make a meal, you have to be careful to add the right amounts, too No, too much, no, too little, bu, jus, enough Measuring correctly is one of the most important parts of cooking To help you, there are many standard measuring tools 1 here are cups made especially for measuring liquids, and others that are best for dry ingredients, and there are spoons to measure small amounts of things If you use the right tool, measuring is easy Measuring Liquids: Measuring cups for liquids are usual ly glass or plastic so you can see through them, and they have .i spout for easy pouring The measurements are marked on the side If a recipe calls for one third cup of m ilk, slowly pour m ilk into the measuring cup until it comes up to the one th ird m ark t Bend down so your eye is a, the same level as the m ark you need to reach • Measuring Dry Ingredients: Measuring cups lor dry in gredients are usually metal or plastic and they usually come in sets of four These are used to measure ingredients like Hour and sugar I he largest holds exactly one cup. the next w ill hold one half cup, the next one third cup, and the smallest one quarter cup The cups are usually marked, so it measuring and why careful measuring is important in cook ing The act of measuring, however, can lead to more than tasty meals it can be instrumental in helping a child undei s land fractions V\e all know that one-half plus one fourth equals three fourths. Hut such things are often d ifficu lt for a youngster to grasp Ia*t your youngster experiment to tin d o u t how many ways there are to make one whole cup using halves, thirds and quarters And how many cups it takes to fill his glass m ilk his cocoa cup, a sauce pan \\ ith this sort of learning through experimentation, your child w ill learn to understand frac tions m a fraction of th«* tim e it might norm ally take The people w ho create recipes experiment a lot to get them to taste jus, right They try all sorts of ingredients, in many different quantities. before they are satisfied When a recipe finally is printed in a newspaper, magazine or Ixxik, it con tains just exactly wha, is needed jus, enough sal,, just enough sugar, jus, enough m ilk, jus, enough every thing w ill tie easy ,o tell which is which lo measure dry ingredients exactly, select the proper size measuring cup i if you need one quarter cup of sugar, use the cup marked >«) and fill it heaping fu ll Now take a tool w ith a very straight edge ispatula or the straight blade of a table knife» and level off the ingredients, so they come to the top of the cup It a recipe calls for two-thirds of a cup of something, you II need to use the cup marked 1-3, but use it twice If the recipe calls for three quarters cup of something, you can use the cups marked and because 4 and equals three quarters I sing Measuring Spoons: When small amounts of ingre dients are needed, measuring spoons are used These, like measuring cups usually come in sets of four: one tablespoon, one teaspoon, teaspoon and teaspoon Measuring spoons can be used both for liquids and dry ingredients I, you use them for liquids, pour very carefully to avoid spills If you use them for dry ingredients, heap them fu ll and then level them off, just as you do when you use a measuring cup for dry ingredients. 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