[Sca-cooks] New Zealand/Australia:food advice

[Susan Fox-Davis]

The Australian recipes I've seen online seem to use cups and spoons for fluid
measurement, metric weights for solids. Here's a marzipan recipe as an example.
<http://aww.ninemsn.com.au/aww/recipes/db/awwcookbook/13/1381.asp>

Tangentially:  I did have to look up the term "Copha", an ingredient for the
chocolate-dip coating, which seems to be short for "coconut fat" aka solid
coconut oil.  We can get that here but not under that name.

Yours in service to everyone's taste buds,
Selene Colfox

Stefan li Rous wrote:

> Olwen commented:
> > HEY!  How did *my* name end up here?  I thought this was a semi-private
> > conversation.  Anyway Drakey, if you want to send me something, send me a
> > set of Australian measuring cups and spoons.
> Stephen:
> Huh? What are Australian measuring cups and spoons for? Measuring
> Australians?  :-)
>
> I thought the Australian measurements were metric or with perhaps some
> remainders of the British (Imperial?) system.