From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article , Bill Swears   wrote:   
   >On 5/18/2014 2:29 PM, William Vetter wrote:   
   >   
   >> You don't write a cake recipe   
   >> "I added 4 cups of flour to the 3 quart mixing bowl."   
   >> because it is the cake that is important, not you.   
   >>   
   >   
   >While everything you've said is true, I just can't see starting a   
   >sentence with "The cake added 4 cups of flour..." to anything. That may   
   >just be me.   
   >   
   >   
   Recipes are usually cast in the present imperative.  The   
   ingredients are generally listed without verbs.  Since the   
   ingredient lists are without verbs and are not sentences, they   
   generally don't obey the rule about writing out sentence-initial   
   numbers.   
      
   Dry ingredients:   
   4 c (1 lb.) flaxmeal   
   1 c Vital Wheat Gluten flour   
   1 T salt   
   1/2 c Splenda   
      
   Wet ingredients   
   4 eggs, beaten   
   1/s c warm water   
   1 T sugar   
   1 T yeast   
   1 additional c warm water   
      
   Mix dry ingredients together with a large spoon.   
   Beat eggs.  Dissolve yeast and sugar in water, put somewhere to   
   rise for about 10 minutes.  Add yeast mixture and additional   
   water to eggs and beat together.   
      
   And so on.   
      
      
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   Vallejo, California   
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