{"id":3825,"date":"2012-05-05T12:48:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-05T11:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/wp\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2026-02-10T15:57:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T15:57:25","slug":"how-do-you-measure-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/how-do-you-measure-up\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Measure Up? by Shirley Bond &#8211; review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"text-element body\"> I am a travel book reviewer and a cookbook reviewer and\u00a0How Do You Measure Up? falls into neither of those categories &#8230;but on the other hand (the hand is a non-SI unit of length, now used only for the measurement of the height of horses) it fits nicely into both.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-4-3 image-review alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/img\/measure.jpg\" alt=\"cookbook review How Do You Measure Up\" width=\"296\" height=\"439\" \/> Shirley Bond has penned a unique work of research that is a must for any cookbook collector and a necessity for any cookbook writer. It is cover-to-cover conversions, that make life so much easier for those who bake.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, accurate measurement is important in any form of food preparation, but it\u2019s at the very heart of successful baking. A couple of grams either way could indeed make the difference between a light and airy sponge and a hefty pancake. How big is a large egg? How many people will that wedding cake feed? All these answers and more are to be found in How Do You Measure Up?<\/p>\n<p>Any enthusiastic cook is liable to return from holiday (US conversion = vacation) with a case full of cookbooks using cup measurements, that can now easily be converted to ounces (if you\u2019re still in pre-metric mode). Those cookbooks that your mum used for years are likely to be imperial but it\u2019s simple to convert the much-loved recipes to litres, kilos and grams.<\/p>\n<p>Tins and cooking times have always caused problems. You have a favourite fruit cake recipe and have always baked that in a round tin but what do you do if you want to make a larger cake and indeed a square one? Turn to page 108! There is a table here that will enable the baker to turn that small 5-inch teatime treat into a 25cm celebration centrepiece.<\/p>\n<p>How Do You Measure Up? is a thorough catalogue of weights, measures, temperatures, volumes, storage advice, freezing times, cooking times. There is information here that you can\u2019t imagine you would ever need &#8230;but sooner or later, if you\u2019re the owner of a kitchen, you will.<\/p>\n<p>How Do You Measure Up?<br \/>\nAuthor: Shirley Bond<br \/>\nPublished by: Woodlands Publishing [This company is now closed.]<br \/>\nPrice: \u00a37.99 + \u00a32.75 postage and packing<\/p>\n<p>ISBN 978-0-9558911-2-0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Cookbook review by Chrissie Walker \u00a9 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a travel book reviewer and a cookbook reviewer and\u00a0How Do You Measure Up? falls into neither of those categories &#8230;but on the other hand (the hand is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,22],"tags":[507,1321,1322],"class_list":["post-3825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","category-cookbooks","tag-baking","tag-how-do-you-measure-up","tag-shirley-bond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3825"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25412,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3825\/revisions\/25412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mostlyfood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}