Eight large or ten medium sized eggs weigh one pound. The expert foreign cook depends entirely on her tongue in this respect, adding a little of this, tasting the food, then adding a a little of something else, and so on. In the recipes for bread, raised tarts, etc., the exact amount of flour is seldom given. As every cook knows, flours vary, and she must be guided by her experience. After one or two failures she can tell just how much flour to use.
Many recipes call for flour and butter blended together, without giving the exact amounts of each.
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