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Taking Guesswork Out Of Cooking
The preparation of a series of standard fool-proof recipes for all kinds of dishes is the aim of a group of students at East Sydney Technical College and their instructor, Miss Margaret Beale.
They want to take the guesswork out of cooking; to make it easy for the amateur to follow a recipe blindly and have it come out the way she expects, just to her liking.
The girls are in the third year of the science diploma course in food and nutrition, and are doing “experimental cookery” to learn the “why” of the subtle art.
They take a recipe, systematically vary each ingredient and see what happens. They alter the method of mixing and the oven temperature and note the result.
“And from that we hope to be able to predict accurately just how a dish will turn out in size, texture, tenderness, eating