[Sca-cooks] OOP - curries
Patrick Levesque
pleves1 at PO-BOX.McGill.Ca
Mon Mar 17 19:15:47 PST 2003
>A tola is the weight of one silver rupee or 11.7 grams or 180 troy grains.
>The ten tola gold bar which is common throughout Asia and the Middle East is
>the smuggler's favorite. If 1 prasthra = 29 tolas, then the prastha is just
>under 1 pound troy. Considering some of the disparities, I suspect we may
>be discussing wet and dry measures having the same name and that we may be
>comparing apples and oranges.
>
Thanks again for the help!
Do you have a reference to recommend using Indian measures? I'd definitely
be interested in looking them up as well!
Petru
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