[Sca-cooks] Mongol measure?

[Aurelia Rufinia]

::blink::

Thats a lot of gerbils....

Aurelia


--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Hrothny
> 
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=====
Baroness Aurelia Rufinia
House Iron Maiden, Barony of Carolingia, 
East Kingdom, Northshield Ex-Pat

"Him name is Hopkin Green Frog.  I'll find my frog."


		
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