In article >,
"J. Clarke" > wrote:

> >> On 4/29/2010 4:08 PM, graham wrote:

> >>> But with scales, one never has these problems.

> While scales are useful, you seldom find recipes with quantities given
> by weight.

In the US? We have a cookbook, presumably for the US, with weights for
the recipes. It was the darndest thing. For a stew, it was like 1
pound, 2 ounces of potatoes, 9 ounces of carrots, etc. For a stew?
What weird measures. After a little thought, I realized that somebody
must have just converted metric recipes straight across, as that's 500g
and 250g.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA