Recipes and Measurements

I keep a clean kitchen, but I have to admit there’s dust on the measuring spoons hanging beside my stove. We never had a measuring cup or kitchen scale, and I don’t use either when I cook. We did have pork-and-beans cans for scooping flour, rice, and grits from the big covered galvanized tins under the kitchen table. But a can full wasn’t a measurement. A “scoop” was. It was less than a full can, dependent on the cook’s eye and hand. And that has made writing down our family recipes quite a challenge.