The boxes are getting smaller again. The size of jars are getting smaller. If you notice it or not everything is shrinking so manufactures can keep the prices the same. This could cause havoc on your recipes. If the cheese cake  recipe says four packages of cream cheese are the ounces written out? If you are creating a new cookbook make sure that it is. Let's say your are writing a recipes for rice crispy bars (a fav) the old recipe may say a box of cereal, you may want to find out how many ounces the old box contained and then figure out how many cups that is. Then when you write your recipe you many say one box 32 ounces or five cups. So when the box shrinks again, and I am sure it will the person using the recipe will not be confused when they use a box of 28 ounces. For any recipe that says a package or a can the some goes. I know this means find out when the recipe was written and what the actual size of that item was but it will make sure when you are at the taste and test part of your cookbook creation process it will taste right and be ready to be printed.

I know that many of you thought this article was going to be about proofing and making sure that the original recipe has been copied correctly. I can not repeat that too much but changing products size is something I think needs to pointed out rather than just reminded about. Hint on proofing....have some one else do it, then are more likely to find the errors.