I have 3 English language cookbooks from 3 different publishers that each give 3 columns for the ingredients: US, Imperial, and metric. The US and Imperial columns are quite different. For example, where the US column says "1 1/2 quarts" the Imperial column says "2 1/2 pints." Or "1 cup" for US and "8 fl oz" for imperial.
On Thursday 11 March 2004 15:37, Chimpsarecute wrote: > A couple of weeks ago some posters made a big issue of the difference > between a 236 mL and a 250 mL cup. The fact that the UK has a cup equal to > almost 300 mL proves that the difference in the cups is moot. If a UK > citizen used a US recipe, they would interpret the cup to the UK version > and use the cup that is in their kitchen. Nowhere in recipes does it > qualify the cup as either UK or US. The same is true in reverse. > > If it really made a difference there would be a lot of bad tasting food > produced. > > Euric > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "J. Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, 2004-03-11 18:12 > Subject: [USMA:29178] Re: U K recipes > > > I believe that a UK cup is 10 UK fluid ounces, which is about 284 ml. > > > > John > > > > On Wednesday 10 March 2004 09:22, john mercer wrote: > > > I was on a site this morning looking at U K cooking recipes. The > > recipes > > > > that used meat when it called for a lb they called 450 g a lb. They > > still > > > > use cups for volume. Does anybody know how many ml are in a U K cup? > > John
