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Here we go again! Even today the cook Lallasagna made the usual mess.
After rummaging through the moldy attic all morning, he finally found the old recipe book “The Queen of the Kitchen”.

– So…vanilla donut…orange donut…no…chocolate donut, here it is! – Lallasagna exclaims happily.
Tomorrow is Sunday, her daughter will go to visit her with her grandchildren Dora and Matteo: they are very fond of sweets and the cake will be a real surprise. Lallasagna puts on his glasses and begins to read aloud.

– Easy to prepare…ingredients: 0.3 kg flour, 20000 cg dark chocolate, 2000 dg sugar, 26 dag eggs at room temperature, 1.85 hg sunflower seed oil, 13500 cg whole milk, 8000 baking powder mg, 1000 mg of salt. What strange dosages…I used to see them in grams… – mutters the cook, slightly confused.

But now it's decided: the donut will be made.
He starts wandering around the kitchen looking for pans, ingredients and above all the scales, otherwise how will he weigh the components?

– 0.3 kg of flour… how much will it be? 3kg maybe? Ok…then dark chocolate 20000 cg? It will mean 2 kg, certainly! How many eggs? 26? They seem like a lot to me, but I should keep them in the cellar anyway. A strange book… a strange book… – pronounces Lallasagna, continuously shaking his head.

Meanwhile the doorbell rings. It's the postman Ugo who has a package to deliver.
The cook immediately took advantage of the opportunity to ask for information.

– Ugo, sorry, I'm preparing a cake for my greedy grandchildren, but the recipe book is dated, it certainly used different terminology regarding the ingredients... here for example it says... 1.85 hg of sunflower seed oil... In your opinion, how much could it be at a guess (sigh!)? – asks Lallasagna.

– Well, I'm not a great connoisseur, but I assume approximately 1 and a half liters... then I don't know if sunflower seed oil is as heavy as the olive oil I use for seasoning... maybe it weighs double... or triple … or not… maybe the opposite is true… come on, make 2 liters and never talk about it again – replies Ugo.

The cook thanks the postman and continues preparing the dessert.
– Whole milk 13500 cg…what does that mean? Dunno… – and starts pouring milk at random.
– Yeast powder 8000 mg … in my opinion it's 8 ounces – and that's it with the yeast.
– Finally 1000 mg of salt… Or 1 hectare? Won't it be too much? But if the recipe book says so… – thinks Lallasagna.

Start mixing all the ingredients together in the large pot.
He soon realizes that something hasn't worked. Mathematics, especially equivalences, have never been his strong point. Cook Lallasagna bursts into tears: tomorrow what will you present to your grandchildren Dora and Matteo?

Some help would be needed child...
Do you want to try to solve the equivalences and correctly transform all the ingredients in the recipe book into grams? Perhaps Lallasagna still has time to repair the culinary damage!