Question

A recipe for sabayon calls for 2 egg yolks, 3 tablespoons of sugar, and 1⁄4 cup of white wine. After cracking the eggs, you start measuring the sugar, but accidentally put in 4 tablespoons of sugar. How can you compensate?

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Step-by-step explanation:

A recipe for sabayon calls for 2 egg yolks, 3 tablespoons of sugar, and ¼ cup of white wine. After cracking the eggs, you start measuring the sugar, but accidentally put in 4 tablespoons of sugar. How can you compensate?

Note that we put  in 4/3 more sugar than we wanted, because 3(4/3) = 4

So we need to increase eveything else by 4/3

So 2(4/3)  = 8/3  = 2 +2/3 egg yolk    and      (1/4)(4/3) =4/12 = 1/3 cup of wine