SC - European teaspoons
UlfR
parlei-sc at algonet.se
Wed Jan 3 22:08:41 PST 2001
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, HICKS, MELISSA wrote:
> Just to confuse the issue, UK and Australian measurements have 4 teaspoons
> equaling one Tablespoon, where US measuring sets only have three.
>
> So is the UK/Australian teaspoon smaller than a US teaspoon, or is it the
> tablespoons that are out?
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
[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/cooking-faq
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