12/10/07

Pea Soup


Yesterday I was cooking pea soup for dinner. I found a great recipe on the internet, I had all the ingredients too. The recipe was for 300 grams of peas. (I found it on a Hungarian cooking website, we use the metric system in Hungary, so we measure weight in grams, not pounds.) When I looked at the package of frozen peas I had at home, it said it has 450 grams of peas. I wanted to use the whole bag, so I had to figure out how much of the other ingredients I should use. I did it, can you? Here are the original ingredients, your job is to figure out how much of each I should use, then email me with your answers and an explanation of how you figured them out. If you decide to comment on this post, tell me something about recipes and math, or the metric system. Good luck.

Pea Soup Ingredients
300 grams peas
3 deciliters milk
30 grams butter
1 tablespoon flour
1 teaspoon sugar
1 deciliter cream
1 egg yolk

PS: The soup came out delicious, even though it looks a little funny because it's bright green.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't like pea soup.

Anonymous said...

does that soup really tatse good ms. billett?