[Question]: How to include total quantity of an ingredient, but sub-quantities in steps

[shayaknyc]

Hi! So, if I'm making a bunch of appetizers, for example, each serving of the appetizer will only have a portion of the total quantity of a particular ingredient, but I want to make sure the total amount needed for the recipe is captured in the ingredients. For example, if I need a total of 225g of ground beef, but each appetizer only needs 1/4 teaspoon of ground beef, when indicating the ingredient in the steps, I type:

Place about 0.25 teaspoons of @ground beef{225%grams} into each....

Which then renders as:
"Place about 0.25 teaspoons of 225 grams of ground beef...." - which just reads weirdly. Any ideas on how best to approach this?

[dubadub]

@shayaknyc this a perfectly valid use-case. We need to think about good syntax for that.

(Originally posted in issues in CookCLI, I moved that issue to the discussions as it's more related to language itself, not CLI).

[bubonicfred]

Perhaps some mark to not print the total amount in line? i.e. 0.25 teaspoons of @ground beef{^225%grams} . Also I need to double-check how this renders in the webserver, I swear it doesn't print inline.

[jphastings]

This seems linked to this discussion — perhaps just referencing a quantity (without an ingredient) is the way to do this?

Place about %{0.25%teaspoons} of @ground beef{225%grams} into each

[FranGarc]

When you write a recipe you may mention one or more ingredients multiple times, but since it's the same amount, you just write @ingredient{amount} the first time, and just @ingredient the followng ones. When you use different amounts of a same ingredients, you go @ingredient{amount1} and @ingredient{amount2}.

Think of a cupcake recipe that includes the buttercream or whatever filling you like. Both things have at least sugar in common, so it would go like

Make the batter with @sugar{400g}. Mix the sugar with the flour in a bowl separate from the wet ingredients.
--- something else---
Make the filling with @butter{200g} @sugar{300g}. Whip the butter with the sugar and the @Cinnamon until creamy

Ideally, the CLI would list the ingredient as

Sugar: 700g