I've never actually encountered a table spoon that measures a "tablespoon." 3:1
seems to be the ratio of teaspoons to tablespoons, yet I've never used a
"teaspoon" three of which would fill a real tablespoon, though I guess the
measures work out that way.
The purpose of the recipe is to provide a place to start ... <sigh> ... that's
all one can hope for, I guess.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Turnbull" <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: New here :-)
> On Mar 5, 18:51, Tony Duell wrote:
> > > If you think all that's bad, I still haven't figured out the
> measurements
> > > for cooking...like how many tablespoons in a cup, and how many cups in
> a
> > > quart and all that nonsense. Who came up with this crap anyway?
> >
> > I knew the HP49G was useful for something :-). It has all those units in
> > the unit management system..
> >
> > According to that machine :
> >
> > 1 cup = 16 tablespoons
> >
> > 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 :-)
>
> > 1 cup = 8 fluid ounces
> >
> > 1 quart = 4 cups
> >
> > 1 cup = 236.5882365 ml
>
> 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.
>
> A tablespoon is supposedly 15ml (mine aren't but that's another story :-))
> So 16 tbsp (1 U.S. cup) would be 240ml. Close enough for cookery, I
> suppose.
>
> And of course that only applies to liquid measure. When you're measuring
> dry materials, you're supposed to use a rounded (not heaped! that's
> different) spoonful -- an allowance for the hypothetical meniscus, of
> course.
>
> --
>
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> Dept. of Computer Science
> University of York
>
>
Received on Mon Mar 05 2001 - 19:19:21 GMT