Wed, 6 May
The Cover Story

The Soft
loaf.

A dense, creamy cheesecake weighing about ten pounds, baked in a 9x13-inch dish and serving 20 to 24 people. Made with cream cheese, sweetened condensed milk, and lemon juice over a graham cracker crust.

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A stick of unsalted butter, partly unwrapped, on a white linen tablecloth
Long Read

The quiet case for weighing your butter.

For sixty years American baking has been a story told in cups — a unit of volume so wildly imprecise that two bakers in the same kitchen will produce two different cookies from the same recipe. We spent six months in three test kitchens to find out what we lose, and what we gain, when we finally put away the measuring cup.

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