on 2005-02-17 13.07, Pierre Abbat at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2005 09:06, Stephen Gallagher wrote: >>> I've read that metric recipes usually quote the >>> mass, not volume, of solid >>> ingredients. >> >> It's not that cooking in metric requires measurement >> of solids by mass. It's just that most of the >> countries that were iniitial users of metric had also >> adopted measurement by mass as part of their cooking >> procedures. That's why most metric recipes usually >> show solids measured by mass. > > Well, I found http://www.deliciasdacozinhamineira.com.br/ and the recipes have > kilograms of meat and liters of milk, but the rice and sugar are measured in > tea jiggers (?), and liquids are measured in jiggers, cups, and spoons, plus > the occasional half-can of something, which is useless for someone who > doesn't know how big the can is. There's a page of "dicas" explaining the > units. > > phma
Dear Pierre, It seems to me that the recipe writers are making a distinction between a cup (copo) of 250�mL and a tea cup (x�cara) of 240�mL. I don't think that this is a very useful difference as there is only 10�mL (2 teaspoons) between them. When I looked up the tips (dicas) section, the other measures all looked to be reasonably rounded metric numbers. For a kitchen without scales it is usual to have some ingredients measured in mass units -- those that come from the butcher or the fruiterer already measured -- and some ingredients measured in volume units: cups, tablespoons, and teaspoons (with the addition of soup spoons and coffee spoons in Brasil). To make a comparison. In Australia we use: for mass grams and kilograms for volume 1 cup = 250�mL 1 tablespoon = 20�mL 1 teaspoon = 5�mL In Brasil they use: for mass grams and kilograms for volume 1 cup (copo) = 250�mL 1 tea cup (x�cara) = 240�mL 1 soup spoon (colher (sopa)) = 15�mL 1 teaspoon (colher (ch�) = 5�mL 1 coffee spoon (colerhina caf�) = 2.5�mL Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia 61 3 5241 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metricationmatters.com This email and its attachments are for the sole use of the addressee and may contain information that is confidential and/or legally privileged. This email and its attachments are subject to copyright and should not be partly or wholly reproduced without the consent of the copyright owner. Any unauthorised use of disclosure of this email or its attachments is prohibited. If you receive this email in error, please immediately delete it from your system and notify the sender by return email.
