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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 2583.1 | U.S. measure | SMURF::HAECK | Debby Haeck | Tue Aug 21 1990 10:16 | 8 |
| 3 teaspoons == 1 tablespoon
2 tablespoons == 1 ounce
8 ounces == 1 cup
2 cups == 1 pint
2 pints == 1 quart
4 quarts == 1 gallon
This is U.S. measure. I think British is different??
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| 2583.2 | equals 8 ozs. | MAJORS::MANDALINCI | | Tue Aug 21 1990 10:25 | 14 |
| Lynne,
one cup of liquid = 8 ounces of liquid measurement (not weight)
With solids it can be different but since you are going cups to ounces,
still go with 1 cup = 8 ounces in an measuring cup. If your recipe
calls for ounces of a solid, you need to use a scale and cannot
actually use measuring cups. (ex. 4 weighted ounces of butter has a
different volume then 4 weighted ounces of sifted flour when you put it
in a measuring cup).
Hope this helps.
Andrea
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| 2583.3 | | BRABAM::PHILPOTT | Col I F 'Tsingtao Dhum' Philpott | Tue Aug 21 1990 11:04 | 6 |
| Find a Pyrex measuring jug that has a "cup" scale
These are "US measure" even though British fluid ounces are different from
the American apology for same...
/. Ian .\
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| 2583.5 | | NOVA::FISHER | Dictionary is not. | Wed Aug 22 1990 01:55 | 6 |
| A british cup is 10 british ounces, making it about 6/5 bigger
than an American cup because the british ounce is a bit smaller
than an American ounce. The subject is discussed elsewhere in
this notes file, too many times.
ed
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| 2583.6 | | BRABAM::PHILPOTT | Col I F 'Tsingtao Dhum' Philpott | Wed Aug 22 1990 06:13 | 12 |
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I beg to differ...
An American cup is half an American pint.
The British don't (or didn't) measure in cups, and today treat the measure
as arbitrary. Measuring jugs and measuring cup sets sold in Britain (common
Pyrex ware jugs and Tupperware measuring cup sets) are graduated in US cups.
Just don't use an actual cup to measure anything :-)
/. Ian .\
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| 2583.7 | | NOVA::FISHER | Dictionary is not. | Thu Aug 23 1990 00:40 | 12 |
| Well, I have a reference at home that lists a british gill as 5 ounces,
a pint as 20 and a quart as 40 and I could have sworn that it listed a
cup as 10 Now I wont be hiome for quite a while yet and as the
reference is published in the states it probably does not count as an
official reference anyway.
I know they British measures beer in pints but I can see where it migh
not be used for cooking and such.
Sorry for the Ytpos.
eded
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| 2583.8 | | BRABAM::PHILPOTT | Col I F 'Tsingtao Dhum' Philpott | Thu Aug 23 1990 05:19 | 12 |
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Anything old enough to list gills (other than as measures for liquor) is old
enough to list a cup as 10 fl.oz. :-)
However I have a US Tupperware cup set and a US measuring jug, and needing
more we bought a British Tupperware cup set and a British Pyrex jug, and
simple experimentation shows that they are the same size (for cup measures)
Personally I always take the point of view that anything measured in cups is
fairly approximate anyway ;-}
/. Ian .\
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