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Jean B.[_1_] Jean B.[_1_] is offline
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Janet Baraclough wrote:
>>> Among other things, if you cook and use cookbooks, you'd be
>>> constantly converting forever...unless you threw them all out
>>> and replaced them. Most of my US cookbooks do not contain
>>> metric measurements.

>
> Nonsense. Britain converted from imperial to metric decades ago; I
> can and do still use old imperial recipe books
> with no problem at all because scales and jugs here measure both. I just
> work in the same system as the recipe.
>
>
> Janet.


Right. Simple enough. My main problem is remembering when there
are Oz measures.

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Jean B.