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Recipe quantities and yield

Cloud Swift
10 years ago

I recently made the Ball recipe for ginger pear preserves.

The recipe says to use 5 1/2 cups of finely chopped peeled cored pears - it says that's about 8 medium pears. The pears I used were what I would consider small to medium but it took less than 8 of them chopped in a small dice to make 5 1/2 cups.

The limes were from our tree and much larger than grocery store ones. The three limes produced about a cup of juice.

It only yielded a bit under 2.5 pints but the recipe says it should yield about 3.5 pints.

Did it mean to chop them in a food processor rather than hand chop them? Perhaps that would have packed more densely for measuring but I thought I had the measuring cup pretty packed. I like the texture with the very small dice I used.

The flavor was really good so I made another double batch and the quantity came out about the same - 4.5 pints plus about a half cup.

I wish more recipes gave weight rather than volume for ingredients. Even recipes that give the ingredients by weight often say they yield more than they do.

Is there something I'm doing wrong that reduces the yield?

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