Be thankful you didn't have to learn to cook from my mother.

Me: "How much *whatever* should I put in?"
Mom (from the other room): "Oh, about yea (yay) much."
Me: "How much is yea much?"
Mom (holding her hands or fingers so far apart): "You know, about so."

On top of that, she often used the term *yea much*, but at one point it may mean a cup or two or a teaspoon another time, or a pinch yet another time. There is NO consistency to the measuring of *yea much*!