A recipe for sabayon calls for 2 egg yolks, 3 tablespoons of sugar, and 1⁄4 cup of white wine. After cracking the eggs, you start measuring the sugar, but accidentally put in 4 tablespoons of sugar. How can you compensate?

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A recipe for sabayon calls for 2 egg yolks, 3 tablespoons of sugar, and ¼ cup of white wine. After cracking the eggs, you start measuring the sugar, but accidentally put in 4 tablespoons of sugar. How can you compensate?

Note that we put in 4/3 more sugar than we wanted, because 3 (4/3) = 4

So we need to increase eveything else by 4/3

So 2 (4/3) = 8/3 = 2 + 2/3 egg yolk and (1/4) (4/3) = 4/12 = 1/3 cup of wine