Cooking by Numbers: Nur Anati Noor Amalina

This document discusses ratios and proportions in cooking. It explains that recipes use ratios to define the relationship between ingredients and that maintaining these ratios is important. It provides an example of a cookie recipe that yields 3 dozen cookies and discusses how to use proportions to scale the recipe up to make 9 dozen cookies while keeping the same ratios of ingredients. The key steps are to set up a proportion relating the original amount of an ingredient to the original yield and the new desired amount to the new yield, then solve the proportion to determine how much of each ingredient is needed.

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COOKING BY

NUMBERS
NUR ANATI
NOOR AMALINA

Ratios: Relationships Between Quantities

Ingredients

In math, this relationship between 2 quantities is called a

ratio.

If a recipe calls for 1 egg and 2 cups of flour, the

relationship of eggs to cups of flour is 1 to 2. In
mathematical language, that relationship can be written in
two ways:

have relationships to each other in a recipe is

an important concept in cooking

OR 1:2

Both of these express the ratio of eggs to cups of flour: 1

to 2. If you mistakenly alter that ratio, the results may not
be edible.

Working with proportion

All recipes are written to serve a certain number of

people or yield a certain amount of food.

You might come across a cookie recipe that makes 2

dozen cookies, for example. What if you only want 1
dozen cookies? What if you want 4 dozen cookies?

Understanding how to increase or decrease the yield

without spoiling the ratio of ingredients is a valuable skill
for any cook.

Let's say you have a mouth-watering cookie recipe:

1 cup flour
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 cup butter
1/3 cup brown sugar
1/3 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 cup chocolate chips

This recipe will yield 3 dozen cookies

If you want to make 9 dozen cookies, how?

Need to make sure that the relationship between the ingredients

stays the same.

To do this, we need to understand proportion.

A proportion exists when you have 2 equal ratios, such as 2:4 and
4:8.

Two unequal ratios, such as 3:16 and 1:3, don't result in a

proportion.

The ratios must be equal.

Going back to the cookie recipe,

how

will you calculate how much more of each ingredient you'll need if you
want to make 9 dozen cookies instead of 3 dozen?

How

many cups of flour will you need?

How

many eggs?

Start by figuring out how much flour you will need if you want
to make 9 dozen cookies. When you're done, you can calculate
the other ingredients. You'll set up the proportion like this:

You would read this proportion as "1 cup of flour is to 3 dozen

as X cups of flour is to 9 dozen." To figure out what X is (or how
many cups of flour you'll need in the new recipe), you'll multiply
the numbers like this:
3=19
3 = 9