On May 7, 10:31*am, Dave Smith > wrote:
> maxine in ri wrote:
> > Was looking for a recipe for the rhubarb we got in our CSA last week,
> > and came across one where the measurements were given in liters.
>
> > 2 liters chopped rhubarb
> > 1 liter sugar <?>
> > 20 ml ginger
>
> > I always thought that the rest of the world used weights to measure,
> > not volume.
>
> > Discuss?
>
> Canada is officially metric, but most cookbooks still use Imperial
> measure. It is easy enough to convert. A teaspoon in 5 ml and since
> there are 3 tsp in a Tablespoon, that works out to 15 ml.
>
> A cup is roughly 250 ml. *Four cups in a quart, *4 X 250 ml is a litre.
>
> One Kg is a little more than 2 pounds.
>
> Can't understand why so many people resist metric. It makes a heck of a
> lot more sense to use a system of measurement based on tens than the
> cockamamie system where there are strange sets of fractions that make no
> sense at all.

Those were the assumptions I used to start with, but it just seemed
odd to have the dry ingredients measured in liters. Or is it just
something I'm not familiar with?

maxine in ri