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Made a cooking mistake, how do I adjust the proportions? Urgent!?
I need 4/5 cup of rice flour, 3/4 cup water, and 1/4 cup sugar. I accidentally put in 12 tablespoons of rice flour (3/4 cup) and 1 whole cup of water. How much more rice flour do I add to make the proportions accurate? How should I adjust the sugar measurement?
Please help, I'm not a very good cook. I just wanted to make mochi. :(
I'm using this recipe: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Mochi-Ice-Cream
but I'm not adding ice cream, just mochi.
4 Answers
- Valleycat1Lv 77 years ago
You added 1/4 cup of extra water, so you added 1/3 more than the recipe called for.
So for the original comparable quantities you would need an extra 1/4 cup rice flour, but since you shorted that I would add 1/3 cup rice flour.
If 1/4 cup sugar is 4T, then add a little more than another tablespoon (1/3 of the original amount)
- MochaLv 67 years ago
I'll make your life easier for you. Just throw away everything, go to the nearest trader joe's and buy a pack of mochi ice cream which goes for under $4 a box.
The thing about mochi is that you need to pound it for many many hours to make it soft and chewy. Otherwise, you are left with this brittle grainy nastiness....
- Karen LLv 77 years ago
I kind of doubt this is a cooking question, because I've been cooking for 50 years and have yet to see a recipe that calls for fifths of anything. I own six measuring cups and two sets of measuring scoops and none of them measure in fifths. There are 16 tablespoons in a cup. Divide 16 by 5 and you get 3.2. That is 1/5 of a cup. Multiply 3.2 by 4 and you get 12.8. 12.8 tablespoons is 4/5 of a cup. 12 tablespoons is 3/4 cup. If you put in 1/3 more water than was called for, then put in 1/3 more rice flour. Same for the sugar. If this is really a cooking question. I think it's maths homework.
- Anonymous7 years ago
Rice flour- add AT MOST 2/5 cups (I would put 1/5 to be safe. You can always add more, but you can't take any out!)
Water- add none
Sugar- put 2/4 (Equal to 1/2) cups instead of 1/4.
If it doesn't look right, scratch it. If you can't, just keep adding what seems to be missing until it looks good. Trial and error is all you can do!
Source(s): I love to bake! I used a calculator to make sure the measurements are about right! :)