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Furoshiki are cloths used to wrap things in Japan. Lunch boxes, books, watermelons, wine bottles, whatever. They're handy. I use a furoshiki with my lunchbox to hold the lid on (the lid doesn't attach) and to prevent damage in case it gets knocked against things during my long bus-train-bus commute. You can buy expensive furoshiki with pictures of geishas and whatnot, or you can do what I do and just use a large cotton napkin. To fold it around a bento box, put the box on the center of the backside, tilted diagonally, so the flat ends of the box are toward the corners of the napkin. Fold one of the longways napkin ends over the box, then fold the opposite side, covering the end of the first. Bring the two remaining ends in and tie them together, and there you are. You can stick a chopstick box under the knot.
2. Measurement conversion table You may want to make a larger or smaller amount of the recipes I list here. Most of them are pretty flexible, but in the case of anything involving baking, if you get the ingredients out of proportion you may not like the result. So, here's a chart to help you size things up or down:
To put it another way, three teaspoons equals one tablespoon, two tablespoons equals one ounce, and eight ounces equals one cup. |
