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My nan got a recipe from this Italian lady, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth. The recipe says to cook the sauce for one hour and then you add the meatballs and cook them for 1.5 hrs.
You must giveth the recipeth hereth noweth.
Sure! As requested
It says to roll into small balls, but small could be anything depending on context.
What a random measurement! Does that mean just half the shell, full of water, twice? I realize precision here is probably unnecessary, but my brain is just really struggling!
You've got to work out the surface area of the interior and exterior of the egg and then extract the volumetric square footage in metric imperial flombles.
The difficulty my aunt had when writing down my nan's recipes is that, in a lot of cases, she had the measurements in her head. So, there was a lot of guess work and estimation.
My guess was always that it would be half of an eggshell, previously used, twice. So, maybe it would technically be 1 egg worth of water. Never really considered that before...
I will not have an egg during these trying times.