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Ted Campanelli > wrote:

> On 12/29/2004 1:01 PM Ted shuffled out of his cave and grunted these
> great (and sometimes not so great) words of knowledge:
>
> > One of my cook books, translated from English to Danish, is using the
> > unit "cups", which isn't a unit normally used in Denmark, and when it is
> > - it can apperantly mean different things from 1,5 to 2,5 dl. If all of
> > the measurements was in the unit, it wouldn't be a problem, as I could
> > just stick to the same unit all of the time, but it doesn't.
> >
> > Quite frankly, I haven't got a cluse, as to how to find out what is meant
> > by "cup" here. I don't expect anyone in here to have "A vegetarian cook
> > book in six acts", so I can find out what the English version says, as I
> > know how much one of those cups are, but if I post one of the recipes
> > here, do you then think that maybe someone in here will have an idea as
> > to how much it might be? I know - it's a shot in the dark, but it's the
> > only idea I can come up with. Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Nikitta
>
> A cup is USUALLY 8 oz. liquid capacity.
>
> Hope this is what you are looking for.
>

Which translates to roughly 250 mls.
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K.