Of late I’ve been re-formatting recipes so I can import them into Meal-Master, which has been my standby recipe database since the late ’80s. (Yes, it’s a legacy DOS app and runs quite nicely under Win2K in a DOS box. I haven’t got a reason on earth to upgrade, and I ain’t gonna. Why this is so is a rather longer story.)
The recipes I’m working on are stored as free-form text (the app they’re stored in is really clunky, but that’s another story as well), and are consequently stored any old how, weird formatting from the days of bbsing, eccentric spelling and grammar, and all. Normally I run them through an auto-converter that does a lot of the grunt work, but the converter output files still take a certain amount of editing before I think they’ll do to be imported into MM. Sometimes I think it’s just about as fast to re-format the recipes by hand, so that’s what I’ve been doing.
Tonight’s freudian slip came in a recipe for something called Cinnamon Almond Popcorn. The recipe as originally posted calls for two cups of “whole unbalanced almonds.” It’s going into MM as two cups of whole unblanched almonds.
Unbalanced almonds . . . ? I mean, sure they’re nuts, but really . . . .
King Louis’s submarine buries the balanced goldfish. Fnord.
