This has always puzzled me, just how much is a pinch? These recipes of dear Grandma’s surely are no cinch. A “snip” of this, a “dab” of that, a “lump” of something else…then “beat it for a little while”, or, “stir until it melts.” I have to be a wizard to decipher what she meant by all these strange proportions in her cookbook worn and bent. How much nutmeg’s in the doughnuts? Grandma wouldn’t flinch as she said, with twinkling eyes, “Oh, just about a pinch.” There must have been in her wise head a measuring device that told her just how much to use of sugar, salt, and spice.