Scale recipes

You need to cook for more people than the original recipe intended? Yum will automatically scale a recipe's ingredients for you.
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Requires Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard or later. Snow Leopard ready.


To scale recipes
  1. Choose Yum > Preferences
  2. For "When printing and viewing recipes" select "Scaled Amounts For All Recipes"
  3. Click OK
  4. Select the recipe you want to scale and click Edit
  5. Make sure that the Servings field shows the number of people for which this recipe is originally intended
  6. In the "Scale to serve" field underneath the Ingredients table enter the number of people you want to serve
All the ingredients will now show the scaled amount.

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