MEow wrote:
>
> zuuum spoke thusly:
>
> > Post away!
> >
> It's worth a try. I'll write X instead of cups because I'm not entirely
> sure if it's English cups, or a completely different unit. I'll take one
> which looks fairly simple to increase chances of someone knowing what unit
> is needed.
>
> > Vegetarian Cookbook in Six Acts, eh? Who's the author and publisher,
> > anyway?
> >
> It's by Alice Laden & R.J Minney, and is based on what George Bernard Shaw
> ate, as one of these people used to cook for him.
>
> I must admit that I'm feeling kind of silly trying to translate this back
> to English, from Danish, but here goes nothing:
>
> Mushrooms au gratin
>
> ½ kg/ 1 pound mushrooms
> 1 small shredded onion
> 2 X's white sauce
> 1 X fullgraid wheat bread crumbs
> 1 Egg white, whipped stiff
> ½ X cream (the kind you can whip)
>
> Preheat oven to 185C/350F. Wash and dry the mushrooms, slice them and saute
> them lightly in a bit of butter. Add the schredded onion to the white
> sauce. Grease and oven-proof dish and fill it with alternating layers of
> mushrooms and crumbs. Pour a bit of the white sauce over. Add the rest of
> the sauce to the stiffly whipped egg white and the cream. Pour that sauce
> over the dish and sprinkle with a bit of crumbs. Bake for 20 minutes.
>
> Does that sound like X could be one of your cups = 250 ml, or does it seem
> wrong that way?
>
> Kind regards,
> Nikitta who hopes she didn't mess it up too much.

Seems perfectly rational to take the standard 250 ml measure. Any other
cup measure is more unusual and probably would be specifed.