Dear Jim, You might like to look at 'Metric cooking with confidence'; go to http://www.metricationmatters.com/articles.html and scroll down to get 'Metric cooking with confidence' as a the pdf file.
Cheers, Pat Naughtin Geelong, Australia 61 3 5241 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metricationmatters.com on 2005-03-13 05.23, Jim Elwell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > At 12 03 05, 11:06 AM, Philip S Hall wrote: >> I will point out though that in metric countries old unit names are >> sometimes retained (informally) but they refer to rational metric >> quantities. For example the pint (in various langages) is still spoken of in >> Continental Europe but actually means half a litre, as does 'pound' (pfund >> etc) refer to 500 g. > > Well, this type of accommodation by the "masses" to a society changing > long-established measurement systems is not in the least surprising. > > That said, I really do not know if the cups and tablespoons that were used in > pre-Communist Russia were the same as used today in the USA, nor do I know > whether the cups & tablespoons in my Russian friend's recipe (~1992) were USA > cups and tablespoons, or "metric" cups and tablespoons. > > (Not that there is a significant difference between a USA tablespoon and 15 > mL.) > > Perhaps someone on the list can enlighten us. > > Jim > > > Jim Elwell, CAMS > Electrical Engineer > Industrial manufacturing manager > Salt Lake City, Utah, USA > www.qsicorp.com >
