MEow wrote:

> 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.

A cup is 8 oz, 250 ml. A lot of the measuring cups sold here in Canada are
"bilingual", with cups and ml.


You will probably run into Teaspoons and Tablespoons. A Teaspoon is roughly
equivalent to 5 ml, so A Tablespoon is 15 ml.
If it is an English cookbook, measurements for flour are often given in
pounds, but North American recipes are more likely to use cups for
measurement.