I watched my mother growing up, and being single if you want to eat good food , you have to learn how to cook. My mother usually didn't measure the ingredients , she would just add various things together and make great dishes . I didn't understand until many years later she was cooking in proportion. She had apeanut butter fudge recipe from her mother, growing up during the depression era you had make for yourself , you couldn't afford to buy candy. I make that fudge today , people ask the recipe for it , I tell them and they say it sounds like theur isn't a recipe. I just pour the amount of sugar into a saucepan for the amount I wish to make, add milk stir it , boil until it reachs the soft ball stage in a cup of cold , add peanut butter and vanila , stir with electric mixer , with pan in cold water in sink, when it starts to thicken good pour on a buttered plate.