Another "stick it to the consumer" moment. So...
Today I decided to bake my very favorite marble cake - my grandmothers recipe. I've been making it for many years from her old recipe card; you know the one.. it has grease stains and floury thumbprints and styley old script HANDwriting. No fake ingredients anywhere and includes this:
2 squares of Bakers unsweetened chocolate, gently melted.
I sent hubby to the store to buy it. He comes home and I pick up the box - it has a new look and a new feel. It weighs half as much. More horrifyingly, there is one bar of chocolate with snap lines - no wrapped squares.
After some research and head scratching, I learned that I needed 8 of the little chocolate squares.
Not at all intuitive. The old blocks had a snap line but each segment weighed 1/2 oz. These new segments weigh 1/4 oz each.
I googled up the Kraft Foods site and was bummed to see that they have no conversion help leaving bakers to fend for themselves and guess. I also learned that despite a price reduction (according to corp doublespeak) my store still sells the 4 oz box for about the same price as the old 8 oz box.
Fail.
Today I decided to bake my very favorite marble cake - my grandmothers recipe. I've been making it for many years from her old recipe card; you know the one.. it has grease stains and floury thumbprints and styley old script HANDwriting. No fake ingredients anywhere and includes this:
2 squares of Bakers unsweetened chocolate, gently melted.
I sent hubby to the store to buy it. He comes home and I pick up the box - it has a new look and a new feel. It weighs half as much. More horrifyingly, there is one bar of chocolate with snap lines - no wrapped squares.
After some research and head scratching, I learned that I needed 8 of the little chocolate squares.
Not at all intuitive. The old blocks had a snap line but each segment weighed 1/2 oz. These new segments weigh 1/4 oz each.
I googled up the Kraft Foods site and was bummed to see that they have no conversion help leaving bakers to fend for themselves and guess. I also learned that despite a price reduction (according to corp doublespeak) my store still sells the 4 oz box for about the same price as the old 8 oz box.
Fail.
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