How do 5 cups of ingredients fit into a 4 cup jar?
Five cups of pebbles or marbles, for example, won’t fit into a 4 cup jar. But five cups of soft ingredients such as flour, brown sugar, raisins can be compressed enough to fit nicely. Even 6 cups of soft ingredients can be compressed to fit into a 4 cup jar. If you follow this, pushing as hard as you can and still can’t get the ingredients in here are some suggestions: Answer: Place a baggie of the nuts or chocolate chips onto the top of the jar, under the fabric. This will add a “puffy” look to the jar mix. However, the ingredients in the jar will be likely to shift around and mix up if the jar is handled very much. Leave a Tb. or so of each ingredient out of the instructions. Don’t leave out 1/4 to 1/3 cup of any single ingredient or the cookies won’t cook correctly, but leave out a bit of each ingredient. There are some recipes in the book where I say “it will be a tight fit”. If I think those recipes are a tight fit and you are having trouble with the other recipes fitting, then I
