SC - SCA funds for alcohol.

[Michael F. Gunter]

>To make this slightly more structured:
>
>Sweden:
>
>1 teaspoon (tesked)	 5 ml
>1 tablespoon (matsked)	15 ml
>
>According to the rec.food.cooking FAQ[1] we also have:
>
>US:
>
>1 tablespoon		 0.5 fl oz/16 ml
>
>British:
>
>1 tablespoon		15 ml (but there is conflicting evidence for
>				1/16 cup/17.8 ml)
>1 dessertspoon		10 ml
>1 teaspoon		 5 ml
>
>For some preculiar reason I do not have my copy of Mrs. Beeton´s at
>work, so someone else will have to check with Authority if Melissa or
>the RFC FAQ is wrong regarding the conversion factors between teaspoons
>and tablespoons.
>
>/UlfR
>

This is leading me to ask what the differences may have been in period 
measurements and todays and which one.  In America it seems some of the 
spice measurements in redactions are VERY overpowering yet it seems that if 
we used a spoon from somewhere else, we would get a very different flavor.
Olwen
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