No, cooking time is only affect by how big or small your baking pan is. If it is larger, use the same cooking time to accommodate the larger portion.
Yes
You can find this recipe on several cooking blogs where people have posted all the ingredients that the recipe contain and how you need to cook the recipe.
For being a good cook you need the basic idea of cooking, and if you don't have the idea of how to cook food and why are we cooking you need to know the rules and strategy of cooking. Recipes provide this.
look in the recipe book look in the recipe book
Yes you do otherwise you won't have enough!
one gallon
Multiply it by 2 (for double servings) If a recipe makes 12 servings and you need to make/feed 24, simply double every ingredient by 2. Ex: 2 cups of sugar = 4 cups of sugar 1/3 cup = 2/3 cup 4 oz = 8 oz Note: If cooking a large batch of food, keep in mind that you're cooking twice as much and may need to adjust cooking time.
Cooking wine contains salt, so you need to take that into consideration when preparing the dish.
Because a recipe describes the steps other people have worked out to make the food taste good. If you follow these steps your cooked food will then taste good too.
if the recipe calls for reg. rice, do NOT substitute if you don't have to, if you do, use less instant rice and cut the cooking time in half. You will find that it will not be quiite the same in texture and flavour.
8 quarts is the amount you need.
2 and 3/4