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Dave Smith spoke thusly:

>> 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.
>

I know how much one of your cups are, but since it has been translade to
Danish, then maybe the unit has too, and it seems that in some Danish
recipe it can mean 250 ml, or 125 ml, and I don't know which it is, hence
my confusion.

Kind regards,
Nikitta.