Recipe for disaster

A recipe Sunday in the Entrée section for Muskego Lakes Country Club Greenbriar Stuffed Chicken misstated the amount of diced onion to be used. The recipe calls for 1/8 cup of finely diced yellow onion, not 8 cups.

Thanks, Dan!

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This entry was written by Craig Silverman, posted on January 9, 2008 at 8:00 am, filed under Newspapers and tagged , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Charlene
    Posted January 9, 2008 at 1:37 pm | Permalink

    That’s almost as bad, though: very few home cooks own a 1/8 cup dry measure, and most liquid measuring cups don’t have measuring marks below 1/4 cup.

    They should have said two tablespoons.

  2. CapitalCat
    Posted January 10, 2008 at 3:36 am | Permalink

    Reminds me of a Globe and Mail correction from about 25 years ago:

    “Yesterday’s recipe for triffle should have said add 4-8 ounces of sherry, not 48.”

    That one was so good CP wrote a story about it.

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  1. By Well the Recipe Said Eight Cups . . . - srar dot net on January 11, 2008 at 2:08 am

    [...] printed a recipe for Stuffed Chicken. However, instead of calling for 1/8 of a cup, the paper accidentally printed eight cups. I can’t imagine making a recipe with eight cups of onions, but I’m sure that some new [...]

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