The water you mix with the corn meal is not part of the three cups which is boiled, it's the fourth cup.
It doesn't really matter now, I got it to come out okay, but I have no idea how. I took out a cup and a quarter, then I took out another half cup, then I added another cup back in, so I guess I took out a cup after all. SO confused! :)
Nooo, wait, wait - in the original recipe I have four total cups of water, a four to one ration: Three which get boiled, but one which gets mixed cold with the cornmeal. I mixed the one with the cornmeal, and it was while I was doing this that I realized I only had 3/4 of a cup of cornmeal. Obviously I couldn't take a quarter cup out from the water which was now mixed with the cornmeal, so I had a cup which could not be changed. I had to reduce the amount in the pan. I took some out, I put some back in, and I honestly don't know exactly how many of what I did, but it came out okay in the end. :) But I don't know why I got so confused in the first place - it seems obvious in retrospect that all I really had to do was reduce the total amount by one cup, which could be taken from the pan.
I boggled dances_withcats, too, and I know she was good at maths in high school (we went to high school together). :)
But that was what really happened to me, and at the time it was happening I thought, "Oh, THIS is why the gave us those horrible word problems in school!"
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It doesn't really matter now, I got it to come out okay, but I have no idea how. I took out a cup and a quarter, then I took out another half cup, then I added another cup back in, so I guess I took out a cup after all. SO confused! :)
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In the original recipe, you have 1 cup of cornmeal and 3 cups of water. This means you have a 3 to 1 ratio of water to cornmeal.
In order to have three times as much water as 3/4 cup of cornmeal, you need to multiply 3/4 times 3. The product is 9/4, or 2 1/4 cups of water.
So if you originally had three cups of hot water, and you want to have 2 1/4 cups, you remove 3/4 cup of water.
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But that was what really happened to me, and at the time it was happening I thought, "Oh, THIS is why the gave us those horrible word problems in school!"
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(<3 your icon!)
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