Dear Joe and All,
In Australia we use:
1 teaspoon = 5 millilitre
1 tablespoon = 20 millilitre, and
1 cup = 250 millilitre.
And that's our lot.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin CAMS
Geelong, Australia
on 2002-08-04 05.16, Joseph B. Reid at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
> 17 Glebe Road West
> Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
>
