They are rich, buttery cheesy cookies with hints of fragrant rosemary and heat of jalapeño, all crumbling into a thick, peppery tomato chutney, accented with the distinctive malty flavour of Jack. These cookies will be a huge hit over the entertaining season! I only made them once, but dreamed about the flavours for weeks afterwards. Get out your kitchen scales everyone, and enjoy a recipe that will turn out perfectly! So here, for the first time, I am sharing a recipe with you in metric and weights. Well folks, it just doesn’t work nicely, because you can pack a cup more firmly and it weighs far more than 100 grams! In the end, I gave in to the beauty and accuracy of weighing the ingredients. I was determined to convert 100 grams of cheddar cheese to cups. I agonized for hours, trying to wrap my brain around it. So I set out to convert the recipe to cups. To her benefit, she gave the measurements in ounces and grams, but she didn’t measure anything in cups. When Dini, the amazing Flavour Blender posted her recipe, I knew I was going to make these cookies. Then I encounter a recipe that I am dying to make, and it is in metric. And in the kitchen? Well, those of you who have been following my blog, know how I measure ingredients. I have no idea how tall I am in centimeters, nor could I tell you my weight in kilos. I am OK buying fabric by the meter, but I don’t know what a centimeter looks like – I prefer inches. Roll the calendar ahead a few decades and I am now comfortable driving in kilometers per hour. The prices of produce now seemed outrageous! Oh, but they were now being expressed in kilos, not pounds. What? The radio played little songs so that we would know if we were speeding or not – “ 30 gives you 50 – 50 gives you 80”. Easy, right? Then some bonehead (no names mentioned) decided that Canada would adopt the metric system. I could go into a store and hold a bag of apples in my hands, and instinctively know that it was one pound. We measured length in inches and feet distance in miles weight in pounds and we baked with cups, teaspoons and tablespoons. As a kid growing up in Canada, it was clear and easy – imperial measurements were the order of the day. You see, I was brought up in an era of measurement confusion. Metric? Imperial? Tablespoons? Ounces? Grams? It is all just so darn confusing! I know what you are thinking – Chef Julianna should be a pro at doing conversions, shouldn’t she? Well, no. Cheesy Thumbprint Cookies with Tomato Bourbon Jam
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