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Doubling or Halving a recipe

post #1 of 8
3/21/07 at 5:08am
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I have learned the hard way that multiplying the ingredients by 2 does not give the best results. Any ideas on how to double or even triple a from scratch recipe? Let's say for a basic butter cake.
Also how do you scale down a large recipe?
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post #2 of 8
3/21/07 at 5:18am
how come that doesn't work?
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post #3 of 8
3/21/07 at 6:17am
I am not sure why you didn't have success doubling your recipe. I do it all the time (doubling and halving recipes) with no problems. I am guessing the recipe that you tried doubling wasn't conducive to being altered. There are some recipes that don't work well being halved or doubled.
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post #4 of 8
3/21/07 at 7:13am
I agree. Some recipes just don't work as well when increasing or decrasing the batch size.
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post #5 of 8
3/21/07 at 7:30am
I've never had a problem scaling down a recipe. Doubling is different. When I need double the recipe I make it twice and then mix it together. I don't know why doubling doesn't work on certain recipes.
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post #6 of 8
3/21/07 at 7:50am
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Originally Posted by cocorum21

I've never had a problem scaling down a recipe. Doubling is different. When I need double the recipe I make it twice and then mix it together. I don't know why doubling doesn't work on certain recipes.



Isnt' that called "doubling?" icon_confused.gificon_confused.gif
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post #7 of 8
3/21/07 at 9:54am
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Originally Posted by cocorum21

I've never had a problem scaling down a recipe. Doubling is different. When I need double the recipe I make it twice and then mix it together. I don't know why doubling doesn't work on certain recipes.



Isnt' that called "doubling?" icon_confused.gificon_confused.gif



lol. no - it is doing it twice!!!!!!!!
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post #8 of 8
3/21/07 at 10:05am
I haven't had any problems with doubling or halfing recipes. I've discovered that to get the best results with either it is best to convert all the ingredients to metric and then proceed to either multiplying or dividing. A good electonic scale is very essential.
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