[Sca-cooks] Mongol measure?

[Terry Decker]

I'd love to see this recipe.  Could you post the URL?

In the meantime, I bet the "tau" is actually "tou" or about 317 cubic 
inches.  If you want to checkout some of the weights and measures for 
Mongolian cooking, take a look at the Silver Horde website:

http://www.viahistoria.com/SilverHorde/main.html?research/MostlyMongolianCooking.html

Bear


>I went online and did some searching and found a "tau" listed as a 
>Mongolian
> measure. I have a feeling my friend found a badly-translated (babblefish?)
> page. It mentions cooking marmots, rather than gerbils, so....
>
> Hrothny