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Title: I returned my copy
Review: The substitution of margarine for butter, egg-beaters for eggs, and turkey for beef, as allowed in these recipes, made me apprehensive. Then I looked up a couple of dishes I knew, and she's got them wrong. Eggs and Basmati rice in Minche? And what is "white" soy sauce?Regular whole wheat flour does not substitute well in chapatis; and I've never heard of sugar in chapati dough, nor so much oil (5 table spoons to 1 1/2 cups flour), plus an additional brushing with 1/4 cup butter. Chapati dough is not supposed to (and will not) rise, as there is no leavening agent.If familiar recipes are not authentic, one cannot trust the unfamiliar ones. A saving grace for the book would have been to tap into the wealth of interesting history or anecdotes to accompany the recipes, but this is either not done at all, or skimpy at best.
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