The Recipe for Two Hundred
The idea: scaling a recipe by multiplying every part, and splitting a big batch into equal ones.
Read it
Who is in this book
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Bà Tư The grandmother who runs the pass and wastes nothing from VầnTots -
Halver Split a whole into equal parts by counting the people, not the marks from FractionForge -
Pie One piece of a whole has a name; seven sevenths make the whole again from FractionForge -
Scale the Doubler To scale a recipe, multiply every part by the same number; never add the same amount to each from RatioRealm -
Unit the Per-One-Counter Find how much for one, then any number is easy from RatioRealm -
Lan a child of the Green Goes first; makes a friend in a minute -
Beto a child of the Green Takes things apart
Every recurring character has a short tune, so you can tell who is on stage before a word is said. The tunes play only when you tap, and the Reading Access sound switch turns them off.
The Honest Page
Which parts of this story are true, stretched or made up?
True
- To feed 200 from a recipe for 8, multiply every line by 25: two litres of stock becomes 50 litres and three onions become 75.
- Adding the same number to every line does not scale a recipe: adding 192 to three onions gives 195, more than two onions a person.
- Big kitchens often cook in several pots or batches, because a full pot that is too big heats unevenly and is too heavy to lift safely. Source
Stretched
- Every ingredient scales by exactly 25. What we simplified: Cooks scale most things straight, but salt and spices are often added a little at a time and tasted, because big pots lose less water as steam.
Made up
- The feast, the 200 guests and the borrowed pots are made up. Halver and Pie come from FractionForge, Scale and Unit from RatioRealm, and Bà Tư from VanTots.
Tell it back
Tell the story in your own words: who was there, what went wrong, and what they found out. Then the soup recipe card, the last of four, and the feast itself goes on your belt.
On your belt: the soup recipe card, the last of four, and the feast itself.
Your belt lives on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
Ring the hammer for someone
Pick this book for someone younger. The link carries only the book, and it will wait for them on the Green.