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need some help with cooking

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Finally I am going to try some recipes out of the Paleo Diet book of Cordain, I've just bought all the ingredients. That leaves me still so mysteries to solve; adjust to European measurement:
some things I can figure out myself like tsp=tea spoon. What means:
- T (table spoon?)
- what does C mean? (not our short C like in C and D :wink: , in recipes of course)
- what does T mean?

In a US cook book is it normal to for temperature to use Fahrenheit instead of Celsius (I guess because 350 Celsius sounds quite hot to me for oven temperature.

Also I found a great weight and measure converter on a BBC website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/food/unitc ... =C&t_out=F

that will help me to get from oz and floz to kg and ml's. But than there is still the mystery of van lb?

Is there anybody that answers my questions?
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Post by tex »

Hi Harma,

I'm not much of a cook, but yes, "T" usually stands for tablespoon, I believe. "C" should mean cup, and yes, we use the Fahrenheit temperature scale in the US. To convert to Celsius, you have to subtract 32 from the Fahrenheit reading, divide that result by 9, and then multiply that result by 5.

I'm not sure what you mean by "van lb", but "lb" is an abbreviation for pound, (not the British currency, but a measure of weight), which you will need to convert to grams or kilograms.

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Post by harma »

tex thanks, I found the lb also on the BBC website converter. That leaves me with one question, hopefully someone else can help me with. It sounds logic to me to C means cup, but how much is a cup? Like a coffee cup?
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A US cup is 8 fluid ounces, or 16 tablespoons.
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Post by teagirl »

Hi Harma, "cup" also flummoxed me when I moved to Canada many years ago. I had never heard of it. As a Brit I was used to pound (abbr lb) and ounces (abbr oz). I looked at my crockery and I had cups of 3 different sizes ... how could a cup be a measurement???

I asked a neighbour and she lent me a set of plastic measures - cup, half cup, third cup, and quarter cup. Next day I bought a set.

I use a lot of web recipes and I have found that capital T is tablespoon, small t is teaspoon. I'd been used to tbsp and tsp.

Metric I can't and won't use. Canada is metric but I've stuck with my friend fahrenheit.

I use this calculator for everything. They have volume and weight but also cooking by product.
http://www.onlineconversion.com/
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Hi Harma,

You will find that in most cases a recipe will work best if you use all metric or all 'imperial' (US or UK) measures.

t = tsp = teaspoon = 5ml
T=Tbsp= Tablespoon = 20ml (or 15ml depending on country)
C = cup = 250ml

oz = ounce = 28g= use 30 grams
lb = pound = 450g = use half a kilogram (500g).

You will also find that most of the time it doesn't have to be exact to work. People say that for baking it has to be exact, but even then it mostly matters that you have enough raising agent (baking powder) for the amount of flour. The variations are what makes things unique.

Could 'van' be an abbreviation for vanilla?

Let us know how the cooking goes!

Lyn
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