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Old 05-26-2008, 12:10 PM   #55
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Originally Posted by Patricia View Post
Easily. Put a spoonful of flour in the oven. If it goes dark brown after a couple of minutes then it is a hot oven. If it becomes golden, a medium oven. and if it goes pale beige then a slow-ish oven.
The test is mentioned in quite a few Victorian cookbooks.
Of course back then you couldn't dial your oven to 250deg's either... so you have to resort to stuff like that. Ah technology... are we the better off for it?

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