[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 8, Issue 79
Adele de Maisieres
ladyadele at paradise.net.nz
Mon Jan 1 13:06:39 PST 2007
Suey wrote:
> Reviewing my records I believe it was Robin Howe editor of Zara
> Groundes-Peace, _Mrs. Groundes-Peace's Old Cookery Notebook_ who wrote
> that ½ teaspoon of sugar per week to was given to members of the
> household which does bring us down to .237 grams or .08 ounces per week
> as opposed to US calculations in 1971 that 28 lbs of sugar that were
> consumed per person annually but I will not have access to the book
> until February to verify this.
>
Half a teaspoon might be 2.37g, but not 0.237.
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Adele de Maisieres
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Habeo metrum - musicamque,
hominem meam. Expectat alium quid?
-Georgeus Gershwinus
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