Recipe doubecheck: One cup of scallions?

[PJMcK]

6. A similar tale

Many years ago, I was having a small dinner party and decided to make pasta al pesto, a dish I'd eaten in restaurants but had never made on my own. I gathered the ingredients and read the recipe which called for 6 cloves of garlic. In my naive youth, I thought that a head of garlic was a clove so I chopped up 2 or 3 of the heads before I realized there would be more garlic than pasta!

Thankfully, I realized my error before going on! By the way, the dish turned out just fine.

I think your recipe was calling for one scallion. A whole cup would be very powerful.