Pan Amasado Adventure

This morning I decided that I would try to make Pan Amasado using a recipe from a book that S's father gave to me which has Chilean recipes in English. It was really sweet of him and I was excited to try the recipes. As I was making it the measurements of the different ingredients seemed kind of "off". It also listed "2 tsp of salt" and "2 cdtas. de sal" so I figured the editing was probably a little lacking. Being the engineer I am, I am very careful to follow the ingredients and measurements exactly. 30 minutes into it I knew this was going no where. I ended up with what looked like a cake batter mix before you add any egg or water to it and decided to scrap the whole project at that point and throw everything in the trash. Here is a picture:

I then checked recipes on the internet and noticed that the measurements were way off. For fun (and in true gringa style) I'm going to send an email to the authors of this book to let them know about their Pan Amasado recipe and see what kind of response I get. I know that, of course, I am wrong to begin with and they will probably let me and everyone else around know that I am wrong. After they complain and investigate and figure out that I am right they will offer no apology and I will still be left with the feeling that it is my fault. OR maybe I'll be surprised and they will be nice about it and thank me for my feedback and maybe even offer a corrected recipe. I'll update the post after they respond :)