[Sca-cooks] Halloween eats/parkin

[Terry Decker]

A standard teaspoon is 5ml based on an international medical standard.  A
tablespoon is 3 or 4 teaspoons dependent on local standards.  IIRC, the
English standard tablespoon is 3 teaspoons while the Australian standard
measure is 4 teaspoons.  A dessertspoon falls between a teaspoon and a
tablespoon and is not a standard measure.

The US pint is not 3/4 of the British Imperial pint.  It is 4/5.
Considering the the US pint is based on the English wine gallon in force
under Elizabeth I, I would say you received the Queen's full measure.

Bear



>What's a "dessert spoonful?" a tablespoon? a teaspoon?
>--Maire, culturally-deprived american....
>
>Don't you love 2 nations divided by a sigle language.
>teaspoon              5ml spoon
>dessert spoon      15ml spoon
>table spoon          20/25ml spoon depending on north or south of England
>please don't ask me to put that into american weights and measures. I got
>short changed when I asked for beer....they only gave me 3/4 pint:-)
>vara