Kitchen -- Answer: SWEDISH CHEF -- By Peter Sagerson
This is a relatively straight-forward indexing puzzle. There are three clues
that should give you a place to start:
- The recipe serves 195.
- The meat is measured in cups rather than pounds.
- The stock, which is just used to simmer the meat, is measured with very
fine granularity.
If you convert all of the measurements to tablespoons (four tablespoons to a
quarter cup), you will find that they add up to 195:
- 28 T bread cubes
- 40 T hamburger
- 32 T pork
- 1 T butter
- 4 T onion, finely chopped
- 3 T chopped parsley
- 2 T oregano
- 3 T marjoram
- 2 T grated lemon rind
- 2 T Worcestershire sauce
- 42 T vegetable stock
- 36 T beef stock
If you use the number to index into the ingredient (wrapping around, of
course), you get 12 letters:
- bread cubes
- hamburger
- pork
- butter
- onion, finely chopped
- chopped parsley
- oregano
- marjoram
- grated lemon rind
- Worcestershire sauce
- vegetable stock
- beef stock
This gives you twelve letters: three b's, three o's, three r's and three k's.
Which anagrams, of course, to "bork bork bork". The answer is Swedish Chef.
Hints
- What's odd about this recipe?
- What is the serving size?