Subj : metric system
To   : BJ”RN FELTEN
From : JIM WELLER
Date : Sat Jun 18 2022 20:02:00

-=> Quoting Bj”rn Felten to Dave Drum <=-

 DD>    1 1/2 c  Half & half
 DD>      1/4 c  Brown sugar
 DD>      1/2 c  Heavy cream
 DD>      1/2 c  Powdered sugar

 BF> Just out of curiosity, what does the "c" above mean? Please don't
 BF> tell me that you still use cups? The rest of the world (96%) abandoned
 BF> cups in cooking many years ago. Just saying. Interesting recipe just
 BF> the same... 

Hi Bj”rn,

Yeah, cups. They still do that there. We Canadians have to be
familiar with both systems because the USA is our largest trading
partner.

My car's speedometer is in km/hr and I buy gasoline by the liter
as I do my milk but my butter comes in 454g packages, not 500g
because my dairy's butter molding and wrapping equipment is
American. And my oven is calibrated in Fahrenheit not Celsius.

Just to confuse things even further one American cup is 236.59 ml
(240 is close even for baking and even 250 is close enough for
liquids going into soups and stews, but a British (Imperial) cup is
284.13 ml. Back in 1776 the Americans arbitrarily made their liquid
measures 80% of the size of the then current standard just to be
different.

Cheers

Jim in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada where it is sunny
and 21 outside not 69 today.



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