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From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Mon Mar 5 16:55:42 2001

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> > 1 tablespoon = 3 teaspoons
> Except that, traditionally, there are two teaspoons in a dessertspoon and
> two dessertspoons in a tablespoon. It doesn't add up :-)

Would that have anything to do with the British culinary reputation?

> And those are U.S. measures, I think. A cup is half a pint; an imperial
> pint is 20 fluid ounces, not 16. An imperial quart = 2 imperial pints =
> 1.136523 litres (1136 ml); 4 U.S. cups = 946 ml.

Where does "A pint is a pound the world around" apply and/or originate?
Received on Mon Mar 05 2001 - 16:55:42 GMT