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?
Doubtless in a pub in Britain! Though, I fear the financial
relationship need a bit of updating :(
- don