[Question]: How to include total quantity of an ingredient, but sub-quantities in steps

[shayaknyc]

Hi! So, if I'm making a bunch of appetizers, for example, each serving of the appetizer will only have a portion of the total quantity of a particular ingredient, but I want to make sure the total amount needed for the recipe is captured in the ingredients. For example, if I need a total of 225g of ground beef, but each appetizer only needs 1/4 teaspoon of ground beef, when indicating the ingredient in the steps, I type:

Place about 0.25 teaspoons of @ground beef{225%grams} into each....

Which then renders as:
"Place about 0.25 teaspoons of 225 grams of ground beef...." - which just reads weirdly. Any ideas on how best to approach this?

[dubadub]

@shayaknyc this a perfectly valid use-case. We need to think about good syntax for that.

(Originally posted in issues in CookCLI, I moved that issue to the discussions as it's more related to language itself, not CLI).

[bubonicfred]

Perhaps some mark to not print the total amount in line? i.e. 0.25 teaspoons of @ground beef{^225%grams} . Also I need to double-check how this renders in the webserver, I swear it doesn't print inline.

[jphastings]

This seems linked to this discussion — perhaps just referencing a quantity (without an ingredient) is the way to do this?

Place about %{0.25%teaspoons} of @ground beef{225%grams} into each