All to make chapattis from scratch at home most often
I/we make chapattis from scratch using flour
How often do you prepare and cook Chapattis from scratch for your family?
For your information, Chapattis are made from dough (flour).
Kindly explain the meaning of 'scratch'.
2007-04-22 16:24:56 · 8 answers · asked by Paresh P 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
It means that you make everything from the basic ingredients. So you would buy flour and make the dough yourself. You would not use prepared dough.
2007-04-22 16:29:02 · answer #1 · answered by bhalpern123 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it means that you are making the item ( in this case chapattis) with core or whole or fresh ingredients.
an example would be making a cake from "scratch" flour, eggs, vanilla, milk, baking powder etc etc etc instead of buying an all ready box cake mix
2007-04-22 23:36:05 · answer #2 · answered by wanna_help_u 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To make something "from scratch" means to make it from "nothing." In other words the Chapattis were made from a recipe, rather than being store bought.
In other words, if you make something yourself--from separate ingredients rather than buying it already made from a store--then it's made "from scratch."
Hope that helps.
2007-04-22 23:29:49 · answer #3 · answered by Digital Haruspex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most answers have the basic meaning right -- it's about making something from the very beginning --making all of it, starting with only the raw ingredients. When used for cooking/baking... it means you don't have some part that's already prepared, e.g., a mix.
It can also be used in an expresion like "they BUILT if from scratch".
What is NOT entirely clear is the precise origin. It could be from
1) "starting from scratch" in which "scratch" refers to the starting line of a race, scratched in the dirt, that is, the BEGINNING point.
2) "starting with NOTHING" (or virtually nothing). This may be from ANOTHER sports use, in which a player does not receive any handicap (at the start).
Compare the use of "scratch" for a score of "ZERO" or nothing in various card games. This probably refers to the marking of the score with a scratch/dash (equal to nothing), or even to the 'scratching out' of a listed score, reducing it to zero.
And finally, there is the meaning of "scratch" as "poultry feed" (so-called from the behavior of the birds getting it). The term may be used to refer to 'practically nothing', much as the related term "chicken feed" is used to speak of a paltry amount (of money).
OR some of these different uses may influence each other. That is, if the idea began with that of 'starting from the beginning', other uses of 'scratch' as "nothing" may have shaped how the expression was understood and used. . . as referring to beginning with NOTHING (that is, nothing prepared).
Note the 'debate' in the following dictionary entries:
"This term comes from racing, where a competitor starts from the line scratched into the ground (whereas others may start ahead with a handicap). [Mid-1800s] Also see from the ground up; from the word go."
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=from%20scratch
"scratch" -
"Many figurative senses (e.g. up to scratch) are from sporting use for "line or mark drawn as a starting place," attested from 1778 (but the earliest use is figurative); meaning "nothing" (in from scratch) is 1922, also from sporting sense of "starting point of a competitor who receives no odds in a handicap match" . . .
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=scratch
The following seeks to combine them, or perhaps suggest that there are TWO slightly different uses, PERHAPS based on the VARIOUS expressions ('scratch' for a 'starting line' in a race vs. scratch as '(having [almost]) nothing')
a. from the very beginning or starting point.
b. from nothing; without resources: After the depression he started another business from scratch.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/scratch
compare http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/from_scratch
2007-04-23 08:46:32 · answer #4 · answered by bruhaha 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When they say from 'scratch' they mean they are not using anything pre-made just bare essentials. Its like if you make a cake at home without a boxed mix then you made the cake from scratch.
2007-04-22 23:31:36 · answer #5 · answered by nanamack 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In this example, it would mean making the chappatis from the basic level of using wheat flour.
If you want to take it one level further, it could mean that you make the flour also yourself, i.e. by buying wheat and grinding it to make chappati flour.
2007-04-23 01:18:54 · answer #6 · answered by aka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
scratch = from the beginning out of nothing IE completely home made!
2007-04-22 23:29:56 · answer #7 · answered by Roll_Tide! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the very beginning
2007-04-22 23:33:52 · answer #8 · answered by rooster1981 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋