[Sca-cooks] glossary and measurements

[Terry Decker]

1 kappa = 5 liters.  The Swedish version is 1 kappe = 4.58 liters.

The ferfet is Icelandic and is a square fet.  1 fet = 31.39 cm.  1 ferfet =
approx. 985 sq. cm.  So there should be about 10.15 ferfet in 1 sq. m.  BTW
the fet is slightly larger than the Danish fod, which is slightly larger
than the Norwegian fod.  They are all equivalent to the U.S. foot, being
between 1.02 and 1.03 foot in length.

It sounds like a book to add to the shelf with my CRC.

Bear

>Actually, a really handy little book to have is _Measure For Measure_, by
>Richard Young and Thomas Glover, ISBN 1-889796-00-X.  It's a small, ~900
>page book full of all sorts of measurements and their conversions.  It had
>both of those, and just about any others you can think of.  Like if you
>really want to know how many liters in an Finnish kappa, or how many
ferfets
>in a square meter.
>
>Definitely a great geeky book.  :)