pinchlore
/ˈpɪntʃˌlɔː/nounVerified NewAlso in: Kneifweisheit (Deutsch) · pellizcología (Español) · pincelore (Français)
The unwritten system of hand-measured quantities — a pinch, a glug, a knob of butter — by which family recipes actually operate.
The written recipe says "salt to taste"; the real recipe lives in the cook's fingers and cannot be written down. Pinchlore is transmitted by standing next to the cook, not by reading the card. When the cook is gone, the lore half-survives in the muscle memory of whoever hovered.
Etym. — pinch + lore — the smallest unit of measurement elevated to oral tradition.
Rel. — recipevoice · recipecustody
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