I'm a chef and unlike a lot of chefs I don't mind sharing my recipes.
When I write them out, I put the ingredients that go together in groups and put a bracket with a number beside them. Example: I'd put butter, sugar, vanilla and eggs in a group and bracket with a #1 and flour, baking soda and salt in another group and bracket #2 etc.
A lot of people don't realize that these things need to be mixed separately before they are mixed together.
I then explain the directions in steps.
Turn the oven to 350.
Spray your 9x13 pan with cooking spray.
Do "whatever" with group #1 in "X" size bowl
Mix together group #2 in X size bowl
Add group #2 to group #1, etc, using a spatula or whatever....
Being really specific.
People really don't know how to cook and especially how to bake, anymore.
I also wrote a
full page essay that my friends asked me to do for them on how to cook a turkey. Everything from where to find the neck and giblets to how often to wash your hands between steps so you don't cross-contaminate anything to how to make gravy. That essay has been passed around so much that I ran across it on the internet!
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