karen - i tend to need to lower temp slightly for many recipes in the books. my quantities also rarely match so am not sure what kinds of kitchens they have LOL. last night i made a double batch of sneaky chef's monkey pancakes (a staple here) and she says 14 pancakes per recipe - i got 15 out of double batch using my standard 1/4c to pour it to pan... perhaps she does "dollar" pancakes like when i was a kid... or uses giant bananas (which is possible). i just do the recipe as directed 1st time, but watching closely, and then tweak as needed.