SC - ROSE PRESERVES

[Seton1355@aol.com]

Rachel wrote:
>I fell I have to defend my countries rather eccentric measuring practice.
>Wile I was at school I was taught the metric system, weights, volumes,
>distance the lot.  However I was taught to cook by my mother who was taught
>the old imperial system.  Most of our recipes are written in the imperial
>measurements.  The result of this is a thoroughly confused generation of
>people who were educated in metric but grew up with imperial.  I don't know
>that this situation is going to improve ...

I know, I watch a lot of British cooking programs on TV, and if you hear a
cook talk about grams there, he is probably Australian. The situation
probably won´t improve for a long time, or at least some traces will remain.
We adopted the metric system - what was it? 100-150 years ago and some old
terms are still used in cooking but they have come to mean the closest
metric equalivent. If I ask for a pound of something, I get half a kilo.
"Pottur" meant something similar to a quart, now it is one litre. "Peli" was
close to an American cup, now it means 1/4 of a litre (250 ml). These are
not terms I use when I write recipes and you never see them in cookbooks but
they are still in use, although fading very slowly.

Nanna

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