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Old April 17th, 2006, 01:46 PM
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Default Re: Chinese Cuisine

Welcome to RSN figbrat_1!

We hope you enjoy our site as much as we do.

Regarding the "A" in front of 1/4 or 1/2, etc. It is the way the recipe was typed.

To orally tell someone a measurement for a recipe you would say "a 1/4 cup..." but to read a recipe it would be "1/4 cup"...so I am assuming that the ingredients were listed that way as an interpretation by the writer.

There are some recipes that have been copy/pasted to the site and there is an "A" in front of each ingredient. Sometimes in copy/paste certain symbols show up that were not on the original. Computers can be so much fun at times!!! LOL

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