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Is cooking with alcohol (like a rum cake) a no-no if someone is a recovering alcoholic? I also like to use Jack Daniels and other liquors, as well as wine in recipes. I don't want to cause any problems for a close friend who is a newly recovering alcoholic.

We spoke some years ago with a spokeswoman at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism who went to great lengths to emphasize the lingering psychological as well as physical aspects of alcoholism. As a recovering alcoholic herself, she recounted how she had been at a party at which a non-alcoholic cider was served, and that she felt many of the same physical symptoms that had plagued her when she was drinking alcohol. She said she literally wanted to stock up on that cider. continued...

Can I please have information on Turkish Delight?

Yes, but first you must verify that you are over the age of 18. Oh,… not that Turkish Delight? Pardon us. It is the Internet, after all. continued...

What is half of 1/3 pound of butter? I am trying to halve a recipe.

Well, what is 1/3 of a pound of butter? Butter producers try to make it reasonably easy for us in this country by splitting a pound into quarters and those quarters into 8 tablespoons. So a third of a pound (32 tablespoons) is 10-2/3 tablespoons (one stick, plus 2-2/3 tablespoons of a second), and half of that is 5-1/3 tablespoons (you'll have to eyeball that third of a tablespoon). continued...

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