Harry Wyeth wrote in USMA 21510:
>Friends returned from Greece with a cookbook, printed in English, but
>manufactured in Greece by a local publishing company.
>
>What an incredible mishmash of units! A typical receipe might include:
>
>1.5 kilos tomatoes
>165 gr olive oil
>1 teacup some other liquid
>1 litre "hot water"
>8 tablespoons of something else
>1/2 kilo of some sort of vegetable
>
>Teacups? Olive oil in grams ("gr")? Kilos? Not a ml or mL or kg or g to
>be seen. What are they doing down there in Greece?
>
>HARRY WYETH
The (Canadian) Metric Practice Guide, 2000, says:
1 cup (8 fluid ounces) = 227 mL
1 cup (US, 8 US fluid ounces) = 237 mL
1 cup (UK, 10 fluid ounces) = 284 mL
1 teaspoon (1/6 fluid ounce) = 4.73 mL
1 teaspoon (US, 1/6 US fluid ounce) = 4.93 mL
1 teaspoon (UK, 5/24 fluid ounce) = 5.92 mL
1 tablespoon (1/2 fluid ounce) = 14.2 mL
1 tablespoon (US, 1/2 US fluid ounce = 14.8 mL
1 tablespoon (UK, 5/6 fluid ounce) = 17,8 mL
Joseph B.Reid
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Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
