The Trouble With Foreign Languages and Poor Eyesight.

My youngest sister is famous for her Strawberry Cake.  In the spring of the year,  we are often treated to this wonderful dessert when at her house.

This Sunday, I have dinner guests coming and this being strawberry season, I emailed 'Sis' to get her recipe.  It is this one.

Recipe in hand I headed to the grocery store.  Cake mix - only a bit of a language problem.  Does  520grams equal 18 1/4 ounces?  Close enough I thought.

The second ingredient gave me more of an issue.  The recipe calls for  - or I thought it did - a 3 oz package of sugar-free strawberry gelatin.

At my small, rural, grocery store, there was one variety only of sugar-free gelatin.  It came in a  10 gram package.  Rural folks are not big on sugar-free.

I dug deep to find my grade school math and came up with
        3 ounces is almost 4 ounces. 
        4 ounces is 1/4 of 16 ounces. 
       16 ounces is one pound. 
       One pound equals 454 grams -one of the few bilingual measurements I know.

So the recipe is looking for a sugar-free gelatin mix of about 112 grams.  That's a far cry from the 10g package on the shelf.

The closest I could get was regular gelatin in an   85gram package,  sugar and all.  85 is closer to 112 and so it would  have to do.  Home I came to bake the cake.  Cake baked and cooling, it occurred to me that it was a bit of a funny story and might make an interesting blog post.

 Recipe in hand I sat down to type.  What did I see?  A dot.  A decimal.  A period.  Call it what you will, it was sitting  smartly in front of the three.  The recipe calls not for  a three ounce package, but a 'point' three ounce package.  What would you like to bet that is close to  ten grams?

Sunday dinner will tell the tale.    It looks like  cake,

 

but it jiggles like jello.    'Cakello' most likely. 

I intend to smother it in fresh berries.  That should cover my foreign language, poor eyesight cake issues.