[Sca-cooks] Mongol measure?

[Terry Decker]

Maybe it's for the Emperor's banquet.

Bear

> ::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