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We’ll more fully explore comparing by value or reference in Chapter 5. It’s time to move on to
determining the relative order of numbers and strings with the > greater and < less operators.
Determining Whether One Number or String Is Greater Than
Another
CHAPTER 3 ■ OPERATORS
If you were to strain most of the watery whey from a 1 quart tub of whole milk yogurt, which is 4 percent
cream, you would have 1 2/3 cups of delicious full cream Greek yogurt, yiaourti, which is 10 percent
cream. Mmmh. Moreover, if you were to strain all of the watery whey, you would have 1 1/3 cups of
yogurt cheese, a healthier cream cheese. To do so, simply put a sieve lined with eight layers of
cheesecloth overtop a bowl in the fridge, dump in the yogurt, and let the whey drain for 6 hours to make
yiaourti or 12 hours to make yogurt cheese. However, Greek yogurt and yogurt cheese makers are
inexpensive; I bought mine for $21 from www.kingarthurflour.com, but Target has one for $16.
Insofar as yogurt cheese retains the lactic acid from the yogurt, you can leaven dough with it in
place of sour cream. One of my favorite apple cakes does so. Plus the icing is made with whipped yogurt
cheese rather than cream cheese. The recipe can be represented by nesting dough and icing objects
within the following cake object. Note that you would do the following:
• Strain 2 2/3 cups of watery whey from 4 cups of Stonyfield cream-top yogurt to
create 1 1/3 cups yogurt cheese.
• Shred 1 2/3 cups of tart Granny Smith apples.
• Sift Red Mill organic whole wheat pastry flour with the nutmeg and cinnamon.
• Whisk 2 eggs, with 2/3 cup yogurt cheese and 1/3 cup pure maple syrup.
• Dissolve the tartar and soda in the liquid.
• Immediately mix liquid with sifted dry ingredients.
• Fold in the shredded Granny Smith and chopped pecans.
• Bake for 40 minutes at 350ºF.
• To make icing, whisk until creamy the remaining 2/3 cup yogurt cheese with 1 1/3
tbs (4 tsp) pure maple syrup and 2 tsp. ground pecans.
• Wait for cake to cool before topping with icing.
var cake = {
dough: {
organicPastryFlour: [1 + 1/2, "cup"],
freshlyGroundNutmeg: [1/4, "tsp"],
saigonCinnamon: [1/2, "tsp"],
soda: [1, "tsp"],
tartar: [1, "tsp"],
egg: [2],
yogurtCheese: [2/3, "cup"],
pureMapleSyrup: [1/3, "cup"],
shreddedGrannySmith: [1 + 2/3, "cup"],
choppedPecans: [1/2, "cup"]
},
icing: {
yogurtCheese: [2/3, "cup"],
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