[Sca-cooks] Mongol measure?

[Terry Decker]

Tan is a Chinese measure of weight also written as dan.  Modernly, it is 50 
kilograms (110 lbs roughly).  The older version is roughly 133.3 pounds 
making it roughly equivalent to the European quintal.

Bear

>A friend is reading recipes (I have no idea where he found them) and asked
> what a "tan" was as a unit of measure. I told him I'd ask those more
> knowledgeable than myself - although since the recipe calls for a "tan of
> gerbils", I'm a little afraid.
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> Hrothny